Best Poetry Collections of the 20th Century

1.
The Waste Land
The Waste Land 4.11 avg rating — 57,826 ratings
2.
Four Quartets
Four Quartets 4.37 avg rating — 19,408 ratings
3.
Harmonium
Harmonium 4.33 avg rating — 1,028 ratings
4.
The Double Dream of Spring
The Double Dream of Spring 4.25 avg rating — 265 ratings
5.
Capital of Pain
Capital of Pain 4.09 avg rating — 2,285 ratings
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Field Work: Poems
Field Work: Poems 4.23 avg rating — 1,289 ratings
7.
Auden: Poems
Auden: Poems 4.23 avg rating — 724 ratings
8.
The Nature of Things
The Nature of Things 3.38 avg rating — 1,532 ratings
9.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.24 avg rating — 8,570 ratings
10.
Duino Elegies
Duino Elegies 4.39 avg rating — 9,806 ratings
10.
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke 4.36 avg rating — 16,995 ratings
12.
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver 4.57 avg rating — 26,328 ratings
13.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems 4.32 avg rating — 22,467 ratings
14.
The Tower
The Tower 3.98 avg rating — 1,118 ratings
15.
Sonnets to Orpheus
Sonnets to Orpheus 4.24 avg rating — 4,056 ratings
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Cuttlefish Bones (1920-1927)
Cuttlefish Bones (1920-1927) 4.35 avg rating — 2,134 ratings
17.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair 4.20 avg rating — 79,719 ratings
17.
Autobiography of Red
Autobiography of Red 4.26 avg rating — 34,584 ratings
19.
The Bridge
The Bridge 4.09 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
20.
Message
Message 4.10 avg rating — 9,393 ratings
21.
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God 4.33 avg rating — 8,686 ratings
22.
Residence on Earth
Residence on Earth 4.32 avg rating — 4,225 ratings
23.
Mercian Hymns
Mercian Hymns 4.16 avg rating — 147 ratings
24.
The Changing Light at Sandover
The Changing Light at Sandover 4.25 avg rating — 509 ratings
25.
Alcools
Alcools 3.85 avg rating — 8,552 ratings
26.
North and South
North and South 3.94 avg rating — 384 ratings
27.
Mountain Interval
Mountain Interval 3.87 avg rating — 735 ratings
28.
Station Island
Station Island 4.16 avg rating — 683 ratings
29.
Death of a Naturalist
Death of a Naturalist 4.26 avg rating — 4,332 ratings
30.
The Cantos
The Cantos 3.92 avg rating — 5,373 ratings
31.
Glass, Irony and God
Glass, Irony and God 4.32 avg rating — 5,103 ratings
32.
The Dream Songs
The Dream Songs 4.20 avg rating — 6,818 ratings
33.
Hymns to the Night
Hymns to the Night
by: Novalis
4.01 avg rating — 2,801 ratings
33.
The Complete Collected Poems
The Complete Collected Poems 4.44 avg rating — 13,863 ratings
33.
Omeros
Omeros 3.98 avg rating — 3,240 ratings
36.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 4.07 avg rating — 4,645 ratings
37.
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
The Rose That Grew from Concrete 4.41 avg rating — 12,996 ratings
38.
Breathturn
Breathturn 4.39 avg rating — 436 ratings
38.
Soap
Soap 4.06 avg rating — 250 ratings
38.
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems 4.27 avg rating — 39,885 ratings
41.
Lorca: Gypsy Ballads (Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics)
Lorca: Gypsy Ballads (Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics) 4.23 avg rating — 13,861 ratings
42.
The Winding Stair And Other Poems
The Winding Stair And Other Poems 3.94 avg rating — 176 ratings
43.
A Coney Island of the Mind
A Coney Island of the Mind 4.16 avg rating — 12,186 ratings
43.
Personæ: The Shorter Poems
Personæ: The Shorter Poems 4.10 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
45.
Houseboat Days
Houseboat Days 4.21 avg rating — 452 ratings
45.
The Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath 4.03 avg rating — 668 ratings
45.
Search Procedures
Search Procedures 4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
48.
Furious
Furious 4.29 avg rating — 65 ratings
49.
Fureur et Mystère
Fureur et Mystère 4.10 avg rating — 492 ratings
49.
Elimination Dance
Elimination Dance 4.26 avg rating — 136 ratings
51.
Die Niemandsrose / Sprachgitter.
Die Niemandsrose / Sprachgitter. 4.10 avg rating — 113 ratings
51.
Rat Jelly
Rat Jelly 3.96 avg rating — 111 ratings
53.
Prufrock and Other Observations
Prufrock and Other Observations 4.32 avg rating — 22,467 ratings
53.
The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems
The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems 4.17 avg rating — 2,419 ratings
55.
Sprachgitter ; Die Niemandrose: Gedichte
Sprachgitter ; Die Niemandrose: Gedichte 4.10 avg rating — 113 ratings
55.
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid 3.95 avg rating — 4,470 ratings
57.
The Storm and Other Things
The Storm and Other Things 4.27 avg rating — 205 ratings
58.
Canto General
Canto General 4.20 avg rating — 1,696 ratings
59.
The Occasions
The Occasions 4.27 avg rating — 247 ratings
60.
La Jeune Parque
La Jeune Parque 3.64 avg rating — 133 ratings
61.
Mohn und Gedächtnis
Mohn und Gedächtnis 4.15 avg rating — 399 ratings
62.
White Buildings
White Buildings 4.26 avg rating — 362 ratings
63.
Piedra de Sol = Sunstone
Piedra de Sol = Sunstone 4.33 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
64.
Charms and Other Pieces
Charms and Other Pieces 3.75 avg rating — 91 ratings
65.
The Keeper of Sheep
The Keeper of Sheep 4.21 avg rating — 1,105 ratings
66.
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel 4.30 avg rating — 481 ratings
67.
Geography III
Geography III 4.26 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
68.
Los heraldos negros
Los heraldos negros 4.19 avg rating — 1,263 ratings
69.
New Poems
New Poems 4.13 avg rating — 699 ratings
70.
Ideas of Order
Ideas of Order 4.07 avg rating — 156 ratings
71.
Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Michael Robartes and the Dancer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 143 ratings
72.
The Dawn Breakers: Les Matinaux (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, 2)
The Dawn Breakers: Les Matinaux (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets, 2) 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
73.
Lightduress
Lightduress 4.32 avg rating — 142 ratings
74.
My Sister - Life
My Sister - Life 4.13 avg rating — 261 ratings
75.
North of Boston
North of Boston 3.86 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
76.
Threadsuns
Threadsuns 4.48 avg rating — 282 ratings
77.
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday 4.18 avg rating — 550 ratings
78.
Un río, un amor / Los placeres prohibidos
Un río, un amor / Los placeres prohibidos 4.21 avg rating — 128 ratings
79.
The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men 4.32 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
80.
Gerontion
Gerontion 3.76 avg rating — 98 ratings
81.
Divine Comedies: Poems
Divine Comedies: Poems 4.24 avg rating — 66 ratings
82.
Parts of a World
Parts of a World 4.11 avg rating — 66 ratings
83.
Forbidden Pleasures: New Selected Poems
Forbidden Pleasures: New Selected Poems 4.22 avg rating — 40 ratings
84.
Trilce
Trilce 4.24 avg rating — 1,505 ratings
85.
Spring and All
Spring and All 4.12 avg rating — 2,299 ratings
86.
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems 4.07 avg rating — 291 ratings
87.
Flow Chart
Flow Chart 4.24 avg rating — 265 ratings
88.
L'allegria
L'allegria 4.33 avg rating — 337 ratings
89.
The Twelve & Other Poems
The Twelve & Other Poems 3.84 avg rating — 268 ratings
90.
Amers, suivi de Oiseaux et de Poésie
Amers, suivi de Oiseaux et de Poésie 3.72 avg rating — 155 ratings
91.
Hotel Lautréamont
Hotel Lautréamont 4.06 avg rating — 201 ratings
92.
Dialogues with Leucò
Dialogues with Leucò 4.15 avg rating — 3,164 ratings
93.
The Vernacular Republic
The Vernacular Republic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings
94.
The Word as Archipelago
The Word as Archipelago 4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings
95.
Campos de Castilla
Campos de Castilla 3.99 avg rating — 3,904 ratings
96.
A Wave
A Wave 4.07 avg rating — 282 ratings
97.
Divan de Tamarit: Llanto Por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Sonetos (Obras / Federico García Lorca ; 3) (Spanish Edition)
Divan de Tamarit: Llanto Por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Sonetos (Obras / Federico García Lorca ; 3) (Spanish Edition) 4.17 avg rating — 359 ratings
98.
Anabasis
Anabasis 3.86 avg rating — 360 ratings
99.
Three Poems
Three Poems 4.48 avg rating — 373 ratings
100.
Hard Labor
Hard Labor 4.10 avg rating — 737 ratings
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