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The Artist's Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative SelfThe Artist's Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self by Julia Cameron
Buy new: £8.77 / Used from: £5.44
Strunk and White you don't need. This might be of use.
Embracing Your Inner Critic: Turning Self-Criticism into a Creative AssetEmbracing Your Inner Critic: Turning Self-Criticism into a Creative Asset by Hal Stone
Buy new: £6.34 / Used from: £1.83
Who knows what you could do if you if you tamed that little infernal - oops, internal- voice. :)
Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing LifeSometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life by Terry Brooks
Buy used from: £0.35
Do you sense a theme developing here?
Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Jules Laforgue
Buy used from: £17.04
(OK. I'll stop nagging) Bilingual selection, with plain prose translations at the foot of the page
Fleurs du Mal (Dual-Language Books)Fleurs du Mal (Dual-Language Books) by Charles Baudelaire
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Bonbons pour le doux; Fleurs du Mal pour le mauvais graine. ;)
La Bonne Chanson/Jadis Et Naguere/ParallelementLa Bonne Chanson/Jadis Et Naguere/Parallelement by Verlaine
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Includes his poem La Pucelle so you may read and remember who your friends are.. .or at least who one of them is.
The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by W.B. Yeats
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I know you said he *sometimes* got it right, but I don't know which times you meant so take them all. :)
Complete Poems of John Keats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)Complete Poems of John Keats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by John Keats
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Maybe Yeats was a typo...
Selected Poems of Lord Byron (Wordsworth Poetry Library)Selected Poems of Lord Byron (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by Lord Byron
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Mad, bad and dangerous to know... but he hung out with Shelley so that's got to damage him in your eyes.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 2: Volumes C-EThe Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 2: Volumes C-E by N Baym
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You really need to read more American writers before you dismiss an entire country! :)
Totally PiesTotally Pies by Helene Siegel
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I'd have been delighted to bake you a cake but you can just drag your sweet arse in the kitchen and make your own damned pie! Hugs, Kisses, and Happy Birthday Wishes!