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Poetry Book Summaries

I Fell in Love With Hope Summary
I Fell in Love With Hope
by Lancali 2022 402 pages
3.84
29k+ ratings
Romance
Contemporary
Young Adult
Dead Poets Society Summary
Dead Poets Society
by N.H. Kleinbaum 1988 166 pages
4.17
100k+ ratings
Young Adult
Contemporary
Poetry
Leaves of Grass Summary
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman 1855 624 pages
4.12
100k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
Where the Sidewalk Ends Summary
Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein 1974 176 pages
4.34
1.4M+ ratings
Poetry
Childrens
Classics
Martyr! Summary
Martyr!
by Kaveh Akbar 2024 331 pages
4.23
53k+ ratings
Literary Fiction
Poetry
Contemporary
The Poet X Summary
The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo 2018 368 pages
4.38
100k+ ratings
Poetry
Young Adult
Contemporary
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Summary
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong 2019 246 pages
4.03
300k+ ratings
Poetry
LGBT
Contemporary
Clap When You Land Summary
Clap When You Land
by Elizabeth Acevedo 2020 432 pages
4.23
100k+ ratings
Young Adult
Poetry
Contemporary
The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems Summary
The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
by T.S. Eliot 1922 88 pages
4.15
11k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Literature
Love Is a Dog from Hell Summary
Love Is a Dog from Hell
by Charles Bukowski 1977 312 pages
3.97
37k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Literature
Before the Ever After Summary
Before the Ever After
by Jacqueline Woodson 2020 176 pages
4.18
15k+ ratings
Middle Grade
Poetry
Sports
Água Viva Summary
Água Viva
by Clarice Lispector 1973 88 pages
4.28
16k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Philosophy
The Sun and Her Flowers Summary
The Sun and Her Flowers
by Rupi Kaur 2018 256 pages
4.09
300k+ ratings
Poetry
Feminism
Contemporary
Poetics Summary
Poetics
by Aristotle 62 pages
3.83
27k+ ratings
Philosophy
Poetry
Writing
The Red Pencil Summary
The Red Pencil
by Andrea Davis Pinkney 2014 336 pages
3.91
7k+ ratings
Poetry
Middle Grade
Historical Fiction
The Merchant of Venice Summary
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare 1596 249 pages
3.78
100k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
رباعيات خيام Summary
رباعيات خيام
by Omar Khayyám 1120 184 pages
4.17
22k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Philosophy
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Summary
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
by Sylvia Plath 1977 336 pages
3.92
6k+ ratings
Short Stories
Poetry
Classics
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Summary
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by Unknown 1375 144 pages
3.76
74k+ ratings
Classics
Poetry
Fantasy
The Cottage Fairy Companion Summary
The Cottage Fairy Companion
A Cottagecore Guide to Slow Living, Connecting to Nature, and Becoming Enchanted Again
by Paola Merrill 2022 180 pages
4.32
500+ ratings
Nature
Poetry
Self Help
Ursula K. Le Guin Summary
Ursula K. Le Guin
Conversations on Writing
by Ursula K. Le Guin 2018 138 pages
4.28
2k+ ratings
Writing
Essays
Books About Books
This Is Me Letting You Go Summary
This Is Me Letting You Go
by Heidi Priebe 2016 120 pages
4.07
10k+ ratings
Poetry
Self Help
Essays
On Drinking Summary
On Drinking
by Charles Bukowski 2019 263 pages
3.88
1k+ ratings
Poetry
Short Stories
Essays
Letter to My Daughter Summary
Letter to My Daughter
by Maya Angelou 1987 192 pages
4.09
33k+ ratings
Poetry
Memoir
Essays
I Don't Love You Anymore Summary
I Don't Love You Anymore
Moving On & Living Your Best Life
by Rithvik Singh 2024 146 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Love
Romance
Poetry
The Ramayana Summary
The Ramayana
A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
by R.K. Narayan 1957 157 pages
4.07
12k+ ratings
Classics
Mythology
India
Red, White, and Whole Summary
Red, White, and Whole
by Rajani LaRocca 2021 224 pages
4.42
7k+ ratings
Middle Grade
Poetry
Historical Fiction
Sylvia Plath Summary
Sylvia Plath
Poems
by Sylvia Plath 1975 150 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Feminism
Why Bob Dylan Matters Summary
Why Bob Dylan Matters
by Richard F. Thomas 2017 368 pages
3.73
1k+ ratings
Music
Biography
Poetry
Ariel Summary
Ariel
by Sylvia Plath 1965 128 pages
4.19
84k+ ratings
Classics
Feminism
Poetry
The Dreamer Summary
The Dreamer
by Pam Muñoz Ryan 2010 384 pages
3.98
7k+ ratings
Poetry
Historical Fiction
Middle Grade
After the Rain Summary
After the Rain
Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love
by Alexandra Elle 2020 208 pages
4.18
3k+ ratings
Self Help
Poetry
Mental Health
God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. Summary
God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1888 128 pages
3.84
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Religion
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Summary
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
by William Shakespeare 1594 245 pages
3.39
16k+ ratings
Classics
Plays
Drama
The Home and the World Summary
The Home and the World
by Rabindranath Tagore 1916 213 pages
3.83
5k+ ratings
Classics
India
Indian Literature
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint Summary
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint
by William Shakespeare 1609 458 pages
4.19
2k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Romance
Shark Girl Summary
Shark Girl
by Kelly Bingham 2007 288 pages
3.85
3k+ ratings
Young Adult
Realistic Fiction
Poetry
The Poetics of Space Summary
The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard 1957 282 pages
4.18
10k+ ratings
Philosophy
Architecture
Poetry
Sold Summary
Sold
by Patricia McCormick 2006 268 pages
4.23
62k+ ratings
Young Adult
Realistic Fiction
Poetry
The Prelude Summary
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth 1850 704 pages
3.88
4k+ ratings
Poetry
Classics
Romanticism
The Book of Healing Summary
The Book of Healing
Selected Poetry and Prose
by Najwa Zebian 2021 288 pages
4.37
500+ ratings
Poetry
Self Help
Mental Health
Letters on Cézanne Summary
Letters on Cézanne
by Rainer Maria Rilke 1907 112 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
Art
Poetry
Classics
Flowers on the Moon Summary
Flowers on the Moon
by Billy Chapata 2020 304 pages
4.12
4k+ ratings
Poetry
Self Help
Mental Health
The Anatomy of Influence Summary
The Anatomy of Influence
Literature as a Way of Life
by Harold Bloom 2011 368 pages
3.93
100+ ratings
Literary Criticism
Literature
Poetry
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