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Books like The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

12 books with a reading profile close to The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and open-ended; a demanding read.

1

King Lear

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

In 1608, William Shakespeare’s tragedy follows an aging British monarch who abdicates his throne and divides his territory based on his daughters’ public professions of love.
2

Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

This 1730 collection organizes the complete dramatic and poetic output of William Shakespeare, encompassing comedies, histories, and tragedies alongside his lyrical sequences.
3

Faust, First Part

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Heinrich Faust, a disenchanted scholar, abandons traditional medicine, theology, and philosophy after realizing that intellectual mastery has failed to reveal the secrets of the universe.
4

The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Hans Castorp, a young engineer, visits his cousin at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, intending to stay for three weeks.
5

WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS

by J. W. von Goethe

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Wilhelm Meister begins as a merchant’s son who abandons his family’s commercial expectations to join a troupe of traveling actors.
6

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Charles Marlow, a seasoned sailor, narrates his passage aboard a steamship into the Congo Free State to retrieve Mr.
7

The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Charles Arrowby, a vanity-driven theater director, retires to a secluded coastal house to write his memoirs and escape his past.
8

Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

Dante Alighieri narrates his descent through nine concentric circles of hell under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil.
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The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

by Sophocles

Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense

These three plays by Sophocles follow Thebes' royal family through its curse.
10

The Idiot

by Frank J. Morlock, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

In this dramatic adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, Frank J.
11

The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to the rigid social circles of St.
12

The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense

This volume gathers the short stories Franz Kafka wrote and published during his lifetime, plus other pieces released after his death.

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