Best Poetry Collections
Best Poetry Collections is a structured books dataset with 139 entries. Its fields include Name, Title, Author. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
The page shows a 40-row preview for fast browsing. The complete dataset is available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- 40-row preview of 139
- Fields
- 6 columns
- Source
- Open Library
- Data updated
- Feb 21, 2026
Included fields: Name, Title, Author, First Published, Subjects, and 2 more.
Sorting and filtering apply to the 40 loaded preview rows. CSV, JSON, and Excel downloads contain all 139 records.
Preview observations
- First Published range
- 1,472 to 1,914
- Across 40 preview rows
- Editions range
- 292 to 3,198
- Across 40 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Name, Title, and Author across books entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 139 downloadable records
Name↕ | Title↕ | Author↕ | First Published↕ | Subjects↕ | Editions↕ | Languages↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A Christmas Carol | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens, Groth | 1843 | Children's fiction, Toy and movable books, Christmas, fiction, Children's plays, English | 3,198 | arm, jpn, por |
Robinson Crusoe | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville | 1686 | Crusoe, robinson (fictitious character), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Survival, Fiction | 2,419 | arm, por, bre |
Treasure Island | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1880 | Fiction, Treasure Island (Imaginary place), Treasure-trove, Pirates | 1,988 | guj, jpn, alb |
Macbeth | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 1508 | Drama, Regicides, Kings and rulers, Texts | 1,847 | arm, jpn, alb |
King Lear | King Lear | William Shakespeare | 1608 | Drama, King Lear (Legendary character), Fathers and daughters, Kings and rulers | 1,614 | arm, jpn, por |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | 1600 | Drama, Courtship, Plays, Hippolyta (Greek mythology) | 1,483 | jpn, por, dan |
Through the Looking-Glass | Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | 1865 | Fantasy, Fiction, English Nonsense verses, Children's poetry, English | 1,378 | ger, jpn, ukr |
La Divina Commedia | La Divina Commedia | Dante Alighieri | 1472 | Poetry (poetic works by one author), Literatura, Portraits, Paradise | 1,337 | arm, jpn, por |
Walden | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | Biography, Homes and haunts, American Authors, Social life and customs | 1,138 | eng, fre, chi |
Moby Dick | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | 1851 | American Sea stories, Mentally ill, Whaling, Science Fiction & Fantasy | 1,118 | jpn, kor, gre |
Moll Flanders | Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | 1722 | Fiction, Social life and customs, Criminals, English Picaresque literature | 1,114 | heb, spa, rus |
Ἰλιάς | Ἰλιάς | Όμηρος | 1505 | Odysseus (Greek mythology), Juvenile poetry, Readers, Greeks | 1,084 | arm, por, gre |
Ὀδύσσεια | Ὀδύσσεια | Όμηρος | 1488 | great_books_of_the_western_world, Poetry, Fiction, Classical literature | 1,062 | arm, por, gre |
The Taming of the Shrew | The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare | 1631 | Drama, Married people, Sex role, Man-woman relationships | 788 | jpn, epo, spa |
Leaves of Grass | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 1855 | Manuscripts, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Gay poets, Presidents | 755 | pol, heb, spa |
The Canterbury Tales | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham | 1478 | Death, English Narrative poetry, Juvenile poetry, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature | 722 | est, enm, rus |
Sonnets | Sonnets | William Shakespeare | 1609 | English Sonnets, History and criticism, Bibliography, Translations into Yiddish | 646 | arm, por, kor |
Faust | Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1800 | Good and evil, Drama, Redemption, Devil | 633 | jpn, por, pan |
The Prophet | The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran, R. Black | 1900 | American Prose poems, Lebanese, Prose, Essays Classic Literature | 569 | arm, heb, guj |
De rerum natura | De rerum natura | Titus Lucretius Carus | 1486 | Latin Didactic poetry, Ancient Philosophy, Poetry, Translations into English | 537 | spa, rus, und |
La Poetica | La Poetica | Aristotle | 1479 | Metaphysics, Early works to 1800, Metaphysica (Aristoteles), Rhetoric, ancient | 498 | heb, spa, per |
Metamorphoses | Metamorphoses | Ovid | 1479 | Poetry, Classical Mythology, Metamorphosis, Mythology | 491 | por, dan, frm |
On Liberty | On Liberty | John Stuart Mill | 1859 | Liberté, Morale, Politique, Liberty | 465 | heb, spa, jpn |
Aeneis | Aeneis | Publius Vergilius Maro | 1710 | Poetry, Aeneas (Legendary character), Latin Epic poetry, Translations into English | 456 | arm, por, dan |
Flower Fables | Flower Fables | Louisa May Alcott | 1854 | Fairy tales, Fairies, Flowers, Literary collections | 448 | eng |
Inferno | Inferno | Dante Alighieri | 1767 | Poetry, Hell, Illustrations, Iconography | 446 | eng, srd, heb |
Paradise Lost | Paradise Lost | John Milton | 1667 | Bible, Biography, Criticism and interpretation, Devil | 396 | arm, jpn, por |
The Night Before Christmas | The Night Before Christmas | Clement Clarke Moore | 1857 | Santa in juvenile prison, Juvenile poetry, Poetry, Santa Claus | 389 | spa, jpn, lat |
The pioneers | The pioneers | James Fenimore Cooper | 1800 | Frontier and pioneer life, Open Library Staff Picks, Natty Bumppo (Fictitious character), Fiction | 378 | eng, fre |
Poems | Poems | William Wordsworth | 1807 | Gift books, Specimens, Facsimiles, English poetry | 372 | mal, eng |
Os Lusíadas | Os Lusíadas | Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho | 1572 | Poetry, History, Discovery and exploration, Description and travel | 367 | eng, ita, ger |
Tender Buttons | Tender Buttons | Gertrude Stein | 1914 | Fiction, Poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Amerikanisches Englisch | 365 | eng, ger |
Les fleurs du mal | Les fleurs du mal | Charles Baudelaire | 1855 | Traducciones al español, Translations into Spanish, Translations into English, French Poets | 363 | heb, spa, rus |
Fables | Fables | Jean de La Fontaine | 1678 | French Fables, Translations into English, Fables, Oversize books | 345 | epo, spa, cpf |
Godfrey of Bulloigne | Godfrey of Bulloigne | Torquato Tasso, Marzio Pieri | 1581 | Poetry, Crusades, History, Italian Epic poetry | 326 | arm, heb, spa |
An essay on man | An essay on man | Alexander Pope | 1733 | Poetry, Human beings, English Philosophy, Theological anthropology | 315 | ita, ger, fre |
Satyricon | Satyricon | Petronius | 1575 | Latin Satire, Translations into French, Fiction, Fiction, humorous, general | 309 | spa, rus, und |
She Stoops To Conquer | She Stoops To Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith | 1773 | British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), English drama, English drama (Comedy), Drama | 294 | wel, spa, eng |
The complete poetical works | The complete poetical works | Robert Burns | 1786 | Biography, Children's poetry, Scottish, Correspondence, Criticism and interpretation | 293 | bak, jpn, gem |
Milton's Poems | Milton's Poems | John Milton | 1605 | Bible, Criticism and interpretation, Elegiac poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), English Manuscripts | 292 | und, mul, lat |
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