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Erica Jong
Erica Jong (born 1942)

poet, women's rights activist

  • Barnard College, Columbia University

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Serenissima
Witches
Fear of Fifty
Fanny
Inventing Memory
How to Save Your Own Life
Parachutes & kisses
At the edge of the body
Fear of Flying
The Devil At Large
Loveroot
Sugar in my bowl
Sappho's Leap
Ordinary miracles
Seducing the demon
Ballata di ogni donna
What Do Women Want?
Any Woman's Blues
Any woman's blues
Fear of flying
Megan's book of divorce
Parachutes and kisses
Megan's Two Houses
Sappho's leap
Fear of Flying CD
Love comes first
Shylock's Daughter
How to save your own life
Witches (Abradale Books)
Fear of fifty
Fruits & vegetables
Four visions of America
Rambles through an Alaskan wild
Half-lives
How to save your own life
The devil at large
Botero: La corrida
Becoming Light
Here comes & other poems
Witches
Fear of fifty : a midlife memoir
Becoming light
Serenissima
Serenissima
Here comes and other poems
Cancion triste de cualquier mujer
Fruits and Vegetables
Of Blessed Memory
Fear of flying
Keine Angst vor Fünfzig
Manolito Gafotas En LA Radio
La peur de l'âge
Miedo a Los 50
No más miedo
Der Buddha im Schoß. Über Sex, Macht und Literatur
FANNY
Devil At Large Miller
Serenissima
Les parachutes d'Icare
Fanny
Bendita Memoria
At the edge of the body
Fanny ou la Ve ridique histoire des aventures de Fanny Troussecottes-Jones
De mémoire de filles
Que Queremos Las Mujeres? - 2
Any Woman's Blues International
Fruits & vegetables
Miedo a Los Cincuenta
Paracadute e baci
Inventing memory
Diazugio
Here comes & other poems
Fear of flying
De mémoire de filles
Selected Poems
La planche de salut
Miedo a volar
Serensissima
In Their Own Voices - Volumes Three and Four
Half-lives
Erica Jong Fear of Flying
Ordinary miracles
Selected Poems Vol 2
Paracaidas Y Besos/Parachutes and Kisses
Miedo a Volar/Fear of Flying
Iliggos
Parasutculer ve Opucukler
Angst vorm Fliegen
Fallschirme & Küsse
Hekse
How to Steal Millions
Botero
Fear of flying
Megan's Book of Divorce
Witches
Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

poet, literary critic, journalist, translator

  • Kenyon College, Vanderbilt University

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Fly by Night
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
The United States in Literature
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
The juniper tree, and other tales from Grimm
Poetry and the age
Poems
The animal family
Randall Jarrell's letters
Pictures from an institution
Kipling, Auden & Co
No other book
The Gingerbread Rabbit
The Anchor book of stories
The complete poems
A bat is born, from The bat-poet
The bat-poet
Bat-Poet
Snow-White and the seven dwarfs
The third book of criticism
Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden
The lost world
The animal family
Kenneth S. Norris, naturalist, cetologist & conservationist, 1924-1998
A sad heart at the supermarket
Bat-Poet
Raymond F. Dasmann
Pictures from an Institution
Jerome: the biography of a poem
Raymond F. Dasmann
Six Russian short novels
Kipling, Auden and Company
Randall Jarrell, selected poems
Kipling, Auden and co
Letters of Randall Jarrell
The seven-league crutches
Goethe's Faust: Part One
The fisherman and his wife
The woman at the Washington Zoo
Losses
The achievement of Randall Jarrell
Poetry and the Age (Faber Library Ser.)
LA Familia Animal/the Animal Family
A Bat Is Born, from the Bat-poet
The Complete poems
Pictures from an Institution
Randall Jarrell's book of stories
The complete poems
Il coniglio di panpepato
Fly by night
Animaux pour toute famille
About popular culture
ANIMAL FAMILY
The Animal Family
Strawberry-growing in the Pajaro Valley
The gingerbread rabbit
THIRD BOOK OF CRITICISM
Lost World
Blood for a stranger
Baixue gong zhu he qi ge xiao ai ren
El murciélago poeta
A sad heart at the supermarket
Randall Jarrell Reads and Discusses His Poems Against War (Swc 1363)
Little friend, little friend
The Fisherman and His Wife
Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden
Pictures from an institution
Volar de noche
Five young American poets
Poets, critics, and readers
Selected poems
The third book of criticism
Poetry and the age
A sad heart at the supermarket
Le lapin de pain d'épice
Poetry and the age
Poetry and the age
Selected poems
About popular culture
The lost world
A sad heart at the supermarket
The animal family
The gingerbread rabbit
Rita Dove
Rita Dove (born 1952)

poet, essayist

  • Miami University, University of Tübingen

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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Museum
Fifth Sunday
The darker face of the earth
On the Bus with Rosa Parks
Poems
Grace Notes
The Best American Poetry 2000
Through the ivory gate
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Related Readings
Furious Flower
Mother Love
American Smooth
Conversations with Rita Dove
The Best American Poetry 2000
The yellow house on the corner
Mother love
Sonata Mulattica
Through the ivory gate
Fifth Sunday
The poet's world
Thomas and Beulah
The darker face of the earth
Thomas et Beulah = Thomas and Beulah
The Penguin anthology of twentieth-century American poetry
Bearden's Odyssey
Grace notes
Selected Poems
Thomas and Beulah
Grace notes
Poets/Artists
Playlist for the Apocalypse
Selected Poems of Rita Dove
The best American poetry 2000
Mandolin
Believer, Issue 133
Collected poems
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Only Dark Spot in the Sky
Multicultural voices
Sonata Mulattica
Lady Freedom among us
SONATA MULATTICA
Ten poems
SONATA MULATTICA
Playlist for the Apocalypse - Poems
Poet In Person
Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen
To make a prairie
Thomas and Beulah
Evening primrose
THE BEST OF CUTTHROAT
The Siberian village
The darker face of the earth
Cutthroat 10th Anniversary A Tribute to Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan
Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Greenwood (born 1954)

playwright, poet lawyer, lawyer, jurist

  • University of Melbourne, Maribyrnong College

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Medea
Electra
Cassandra
Medea
Electra
Lightning Nest
Cassandra
Cocaine Blues
Murder on the Ballarat train
Urn burial
Heavenly pleasures (A Corinna Chapman mystery # 2)
Death Before Wicket
Death By Water
Blood and Circuses
Death at Victoria Dock
Earthly Delights
Murder in Montparnasse
Ruddy gore
Murder In The Dark
Queen of the Flowers
Raisins and Almonds
The Green Mill Murder
Away With The Fairies
Murder on the Ballarat Train (A Phryne Fisher Mystery)
A question of death
Unnatural Habits A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Murder on a midsummer night
Trick or treat (A Corinna Chapman Mystery # 4)
Forbidden Fruit (A Corinna Chapman Mystery # 5)
Flying too high
Out of the Black Land
Trick Or Treat
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher Mystery, Volume 1)
The Castlemaine Murders
Urn Burial (A Phryne Fisher Mystery)
Earthly Delights A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Death Before Wicket (Large Print)
Castlemaine Murders, The
Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates
Blood and Circuses
Murder in the Dark a Phryne Fisher Mystery
Unnatural Habits Phryne Fisher Mysteries Paperback
Earthly Delights A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Dead Mans Chest A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Cassandra / Kerry Greenwood
The Green Mill Murder
Unnatural Habits A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Cooking the Books Corinna Chapman Mysteries Poisoned Pen Press
Away with the fairies; a Phryne Fisher mystery
Devils Food A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Flying Too High (A Phryne Fisher Mystery)
Introducing the Honorable Phryne Fisher Phryne Fisher Mysteries Paperback
Murder and Mendelssohn
Ruddy Gore (Phryne Fisher Mystery)
The Three-Pronged Dagger
Danger
On Murder
Recipes for Crime
Heavenly Pleasures A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Blood And Circuses A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Forbidden Fruit Corinna Chapman Mysteries Poisoned Pen Press
A different sort of real
On Murder 2
The Spotted Dog
Unnatural Habits
A question of death
Murder and Mendelssohn
Trick Or Treat A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Flying too high
Cooking the Books Corinna Chapman Mysteries Poisoned Pen Press
Ruddy Gore Phryne Fisher Mysteries Audio
Cooking The Books A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Death at Victoria Dock
Dead Mans Chest A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Raisins And Almonds A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Murder On A Midsummer Night A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Ruddy Gore
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher Mystery, Book 10)
Cooking The Books
Blood And Circuses A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Queen Of The Flowers A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Heavenly Pleasures A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Medea
Trick or treat
Heavenly Pleasures A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Death by Misadventure
Unnatural Habits
Dead Mans Chest A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Murder in the Dark
Death by water
Introducing the Honourable Phryne Fisher
Devils Food A Corinna Chapman Mystery
Flying too high
Murder On A Midsummer Night A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Urn Burial
Death Before Wicket
The thing she loves
The childstone cycle
Spotted Dog
Forbidden Fruit
Feral
Blood and Circuses
Question of Death
Murder on the Ballarat train
Queen of the Flowers
Evan's Gallipoli
Dead Man's Chest
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Cave rats
Whaleroad, Cave Rats, Feral
Devil's Food
Alien Invasions (Thrillogy)
Raisins and Almonds
Devil's food
Blood and Circuses
The Wandering Icon
Murder in Montparnasse
Whaleroad
Death by water
Murder in the Dark
Death at Victoria Dock
Dead Man's Chest
Death Before Wicket
Green Mill Murder
Death in Daylesford
Quest (Moonstone)
Smertʹ v doke Viktorii︠a︡
The Rat and the Raven
Electra
Forbidden Fruit
Devil's Food
Castlemaine Murders
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Medea
Raisins and Almonds
Cocaine Blues
Green Mill Murder
Murder and Mendelssohn
Tamam Shud
Queen of the Flowers
Dead Man's Chest
Earthly Delights
Forbidden Fruit
Devil'S Food
Away with the Fairies
Out of the Black Land
Electra
Cocaine Blues
Spotted Dog
Ruddy Gore
Ruddy Gore
Heavenly Pleasures
Out of the Black Land
Away with the Fairies
Cooking the Books
Heavenly Pleasures
Murder in the Dark
Flying Too High
Herotica
Dead Man's Chest
Death at Victoria Dock
Ruddy Gore
Unnatural Habits
Death by Water
Castlemaine Murders, The
Queen of the Flowers
Urn Burial
Murder on the Ballarat Train
Castlemaine Murders
Blood and Circuses
Earthly Delights (Corinna Chapman Mysteries)
Death by Water
Away with the Fairies
Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
Death by Water
Murder on the Ballarat Train
Murder in Montparnasse
Nebesnye naslazhdenii Ła
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Bundle, Books 1-4
The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
Murder and Mendelssohn
Death in Williamstown
Heavenly Pleasures
Cocaine Blues
Ruddy Gore
Cooking the Books
Evan's Gallipoli
Urn Burial
Murder and Mendelssohn
Flying Too High
Raisins and Almonds
Flying Too High
Heavenly Pleasures
Question of Death
Flying Too High
Death Before Wicket
Murder in Montparnasse
Murder on a Midsummer's Night
Miss Phryne Fisher investigates
Queen of the Flowers
Devil's Food
The Green Mill Murder
Raisins and Almonds
Away with the Fairies
Medea
Murder on a midsummer night
Earthly Delights
Cocaine Blues
Raisins and Almonds
Lightning Nest
Forbidden Fruit
Trick or Treat
Murder in Montparnasse
Raisins And Almonds
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Murder in the Dark (16pt Large Print Edition)
Urn Burial
Murder and Mendelssohn
Unnatural Habits
Trick or Treat
The Castlemaine Murders
Raisins and almonds
Death Before Wicket
Murder in Montparnasse
Earthly Delights
Murder on the Ballarat Train
Introducing the Honorable Phryne Fisher by Kerry Greenwood (2011-11-01)
Death in Daylesford
Unnatural Habits
Away with the Fairies
Cassandra
Heavenly Pleasures
Green Mill Murder
Devil's Food
Un misterio de altos vuelos
Death at Victoria Dock
Blood and Circuses
Murder in Williamstown
Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries
Death Before Wicket
Urn Burial
Death in Daylesford
Question of Death
Tamam Shud
Queen of the Flowers
Death by Water
Trick or Treat
Flying Too High
Electra
Castlemaine Murders
Phillis Whetley
Phillis Whetley (1753-1784)

poet

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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley
Complete writings
The collected works of Phillis Wheatley
Poems on various subjects, religious and moral
Poems
Letters of Phillis Wheatley
Life and works of Phillis Wheatley
The poems of Phillis Wheatley, as they were originally published in London, 1773
Liberty and peace
To Mrs. Leonard, on the death of her husband
An elegiac poem, on the death of that celebrated divine, and eminent servant of Jesus Christ, the reverend and learned George Whitefield, chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon, &c. &c
An ode of verses on the much-lamented death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
Religious and Moral Poems
An elegiac poem, on the death of that celebrated divine, and eminent servant of Jesus Christ, the late Reverend, and pious George Whitefield
To the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, on the death of his lady
To the Hon'ble Thomas Hubbard, Esq; on the death of Mrs. Thankfull Leonard
Prayer of Phillis' accidentally discovered in her Bible
Phillis's poem on the death of Mr. Whitefield
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Also, Poems by a Slave
An elegy, sacred to the memory of the great divine, the Reverend and learned Dr. Samuel Cooper
Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley, a native African and a slave
Poems and letters
The collected works
Poems on various subjects, religious and moral
Poems on comic, serious, and moral subjects
An elegy, to Miss. Mary Moorhead, on the death of her father, the Rev. Mr. John Moorhead
Six broadsides relating to Phillis Wheatley, (Phillis Peters)
[Phillis Wheatley letter to Rev. Samuel Hopkins]
Poems on various subjects, religious and moral
Poems and letters
Letters of Phillis Wheatley
An elegiac poem, on the death of that celebrated divine, and eminent servant of Jesus Christ, the reverend and learned George Whitefield
The poems of Phillis Wheatley
An elegiac poem
Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley
An elegiac poem, on the death of that celebrated divine, and eminent servant of Jesus Christ, the late Reverend, and pious George Whitefield
Poems on various subjects
Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Peters) poems and letters
Life and works of Phillis Wheatley
Memoir and poems of Phillis Wheatley, a native African and a slave
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

poet, philosopher

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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
The United States in Literature
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Words of Ages
Early New England meditative poetry
The complete works of Anne Bradstreet
The Works of Anne Bradstreet (The John Harvard Library)
Poems of Anne Bradstreet
To my husband and other poems
A woman's inner world
The works of Anne Bradstreet
The works of Anne Bradstreet in prose and verse
The tenth muse (1650)
The Tenth Muse (1650) and
The works of Anne Bradstreet
Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse
The complete works of Anne Bradstreet
Tenth muse lately sprung up in America
The poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
The Tenth Muse Lately sprung up in America ; or, Severall Poems, compiled with great variety of Wit and Learning, full of delight
The works of Anne Bradstreet
Thew orks of Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradsteet America's First Poet Selections From Her Works
Tenth Muse
Several poems
The Tenth Muse (1650)
Works Of Anne Bradstreet, The
The works of Anne Bradstreet
The One-millionth volume of the Dartmouth College Library
The tenth muse lately sprung up in America. Or Severall Poems, compiled with great variety of vvit and Learning, full of delight
The Tenth Muse, 1650
Several poems
The poems of Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
Tra cielo e terra
The works of Anne Bradstreet, in prose and verse
Brian Patten
Brian Patten (born 1946)

poet

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Mr Moon's last case
The Mersey sound
Impossible Parents
Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry
The blue & green ark
Gargling with jelly
The Story Giant
kids' night in
Collected Love Poems
Thawing Frozen Frogs
Jimmy Tag-along
The Big Snuggleup
Storm Damage
The Puffin Bk of 20Th-Century Children's Verse
The Big Snuggleup
Juggling with Gerbils
Utters Nutters
The Mersey sound
Thawing Frozen Frogs
Impossible Parents Go Green
Five Finger-Piglets (Poetry Collection)
Love poems
Ben's Magic Telescope
Gargling with Jelly
Ben's Magic Telescope
The Magic Bicycle
Utter nutters
Beowulf and the Monster (Everystory S.)
Gangsters, ghosts and dragonflies
Juggling with Gerbils
A Year of Mouse Poems
Little Hotchpotch
The Big Snuggleup
The Irrelevant Song
Vanishing Trick
Armada
Grinning Jack
Grizzelda Frizzle and other stories
Notes to the hurrying man
The Impossible Parents
The house that Jack built: poems for Shelter
Emma's doll
Grave gossip
The Story Giant
The unreliable nightingale
Puffin portable poets
The sly cormorant and the fishes
The impossible parents go green
Jumping Mouse
When you wake tomorrow
Gangsters, ghosts and dragonflies
Bumblebees, Sweets and a See-Through Stomach
Little Johnny's confession
The Mersey sound
The Puffin book of twentieth-century children's verse
Rhieni hanner call a gwyrdd
Thawing frozen frogs
The monsters' guide to choosing a pet
Little hotchpotch
Gangsters, ghosts and dragonflies
Step-father
Mouse poems
El Gigante de La Historia
The elephant and the flower: almost-fables
Monsters' Guide to Choosing a Pet
Impossible Parents Go Green (Piccadilly Pips S.)
And sometimes it happens
Gargling with Jelly (Handi-read)
Atomic Adam
Atomic Adam
You'd better believe him
Five finger-piglets
Mister Moons Last Case
The home coming
The eminent professors and the nature of poetry as enacted out by members of the poetry seminar one rainy evening
The elephant & the flower
Jubilee Jackanory
The irrelevant song
Mouse Poems (Read with)
When you wake tomorrow. Twelve screenprints
The Puffin treasury of verse
The home coming
Little Johnny's foolish invention
Gelett Burgess
Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)

poet, humorist, satirist

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Goop Tales
The Master of Mysteries
Burgess unabridged
My maiden effort
The lively city o' Ligg
Goops and how to be them
Are you a bromide?, or, The sulphitic theory expounded and exemplified according to the most recent researches into the psychology of boredom
More goops and how not to be them
A treasury of goops
Vivette
The maxims of Methuselah
Lady Mechante
The little father
The heart line
A gage of youth
The Burgess nonsense book
The picaroons
The maxims of Noah
The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne
The purple cow
War the creator
The romance of the commonplace
A little sister of destiny
Chant-royal of California
The purple cow and other nonsense
Le Petit Journal des Refusées
Find the woman
Mrs. Hope's husband
Bayside Bohemia
The reign of Queen Isyl
Short words are words of might
The miniature Purple Cow
Ladies in boxes
The cat's elegy
Ballad of the Hyde Street Grip
Why be a goop?
The Goops Coloring Book
My Life and Loves; Volume 1
Too good looking
The white cat
The goop directory of juvenile offenders famous for their misdeeds and serving as a salutary example for all virtuous children
Love in a hurry
Two o'clock courage
New goops and how to know them, hints and examples for children who would be little ladies or little gentlemen
Ain't Angie awful!
The purple cow!
Curiosities #2 Spring 2018
The goop encyclopedia : containing every child's every fault
Goops Directory
Why men hate women
The Purple cow!
Ghost-Extinguisher Annotated
The bromide and other theories
Goop
The purple cow
Have you an educated heart?
Look eleven years younger
Purple Cow and Goops and More Goops and Other Poems
A murder at the Dôme
The Lark almanack, 1899
Behind the scenes; glimpses of fin de siècle San Francisco
The Purple Cow, Goops and More Goops
Don't be a goop! Frank Gelett Burgess
Le petit journal des rufusées
The nonsense almanack, 1900
Gelett Burgess & the Hyde Street grip
Blue goops and red
The reign of Queen Isyl
Short words are words of might
The lively city o' Ligg
The master of mysteries
The maxims of Methuselah
The Reader's digest
Mrs. Hope's husband
Why men hate women