 | Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / the Flowering of the Rod (New Directions Classic) by H Doolittle
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £7.61 The Blitz, politely veiled by Classical reference. Oblique but readable.
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 | The Dream Songs by John Berryman
Buy new: £7.33 / Used from: £8.75 Confessional inner Odyssey from a great technician, but his shorter works (especially the sonnets) are more satisfying.
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 | "A" by Mr. Louis Zukofsky
Buy used from: £91.29 Obscure and stylistically diverse, but very alluring in parts.
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 | The Anathemata by David Jones
Buy used from: £10.00 High Modernist exploration of Britain's mythological and historical past.
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 | The Maximus Poems by C Olson
Buy new: £27.50 / Used from: £25.00 Unfinished (unfinishable?) epic of New England.
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 | Willaim Carlos Williams Revised Paterson (New Directions paperback) by WC Williams
Buy used from: £9.94 Unfinished (unfinishable?) epic of New Jersey. Aside from Whitman, probably THE American epic.
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 | The Ring the Book (Broadview literary texts) by Robert Browning
Buy used from: £24.91 The first great long Modern poem. Multiple perspectives on a murder trial in Seventeenth Century Rome.
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 | Complete Poems: v. 1 (MacDiarmid 2000) by Hugh MacDiarmid
Buy new: £25.50 / Used from: £31.29 The epic poet of Scotland. Contains the masterly "A Drunk Man Looks At The Thistle" and "To Circumjack Cencrastus"
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 | The Cantos by Ezra Pound
Buy new: £40.45 / Used from: £71.95 Inhumanly austere. You'll need a commentary, and a thorough grounding in Pound's earlier work, to face this.
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 | Changing Light at Sandover by Merrill
Buy used from: £19.95 Arcane "spiritulaist" intuitive epic written, if you can believe it, at the ouija board.
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