Edgar Allen Poe

(1809-1849)

Recommended Poems:

Spirits of the Dead

The Conqueror Worm

The Raven

Ulalame

Charles Baudelaire

(1821-1867)

Recommended Poems:

Horreur Sympathique

Le Vampire

Emily Dickinson

(1830-1886)

Recommended Poems:

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

One need not be a Chamber

Georg Trakl

(1887-1914)

Recommended Poems:

Die Ratten

Der Wahnsinn

Siebengesang des Todes

T.S. Eliot

(1888-1965)

Recommended Poems:

Rhapsody on a Windy Night

The Waste Land

Wilfred Owen

(1893-1918)

Recommended Poems:

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Dulce Et Decorum Est

Cramped in that Funnelled Hole

Paul Celan

(1920-1970)

Recommended Poems:

Todesfuge

James Wright

(1927-1980)

Recommended Poems:

A Dream of Burial

In Ohio

Miners

Sylvia Plath

(1932-1963)

Recommended Poems:

All the Dead Dears

The Ghost's Leavetaking

Lorelei

Poppies in October

Mary Oliver

(1935-2019)

Recommended Poems:

Death at a Great Distance

Death at Wind River

Pilot Snake

The Uses of Sorrow

Marge Piercy

(1936-)

Recommended Poems:

Growing Up Haunted

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