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Books like Poems by John Keats

12 books with a reading profile close to Poems by John Keats by John Keats. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and open-ended; a moderate read.

1

Death in Venice

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined German writer who has prioritized rigorous intellect over sensory pleasure, travels to Venice to escape a creative drought.
2

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

After receiving a prophecy from three witches that he will become King of Scotland, a general named Macbeth murders King Duncan to seize the throne.
3

Songs of innocence and of experience

by William Blake

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

William Blake’s hand-colored collection contrasts two differing states of the human soul.
4

The power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Set in 1930s Mexico during the Cristero War, the narrative follows a nameless whiskey priest fleeing a paramilitary police force.
5

Eugene Onegin

by Alexander Pushkin

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse follows Eugene Onegin, a cynical aristocrat weary of Saint Petersburg’s high society.
6

Alcestis

by Euripides

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

In this tragedy, King Admetus is granted a reprieve from his impending death on the condition that someone else dies in his place.
7

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

A cynical protagonist, convinced that nothing in the universe possesses objective value, decides to commit suicide.
8

The Tartar Steppe

by Dino Buzzati

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Giovanni Drogo, a young officer, is posted to the Bastiani Fortress, an isolated outpost on the northern frontier overlooking a barren plain.
9

Medea

by Euripides

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

Euripides depicts the psychological collapse and subsequent vengeance of Medea, a Colchian princess abandoned by her husband, Jason.
10

Rubāʻīyāt

by Omar Khayyam

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

This 1870 edition presents a collection of quatrains attributed to the eleventh-century Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam, translated into English verse by Edward FitzGerald.
11

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, classic literature

In Algiers, a clerk named Meursault receives news of his mother’s death and attends her funeral with complete emotional detachment.
12

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, classic literature

Arkady Kirsanov returns from university to his father's estate in 1859, bringing his friend Yevgeny Bazarov, a medical student and self-declared nihilist who rejects authority, art, and tradition.

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