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All-time bestsellers in poetry[]

  1. Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat. 10.5 million.[1]
  2. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. 9 million.[2]
  3. Robert W. Service, Songs of a Sourdough. 3 million.[3]
  4. Jewel Kilcher, A Night without Armor. 2 million.[4]
  5. Martin F. Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy. 1,250,000.[5]
  6. Edgar Guest, A Heap O' Livin'. over 1 million.[6]
  7. Alice Duer Miller, The White Cliffs. over 1 million.[7]
  8. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind. 1 million.[8]
  9. John Keble, The Christian Year. approximately 1 million.[9]
  10. Allen Ginsberg, Howl, and other poems. nearly 1 million.[8]
  11. Arthur Quiller-Couch (editor), The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918. 500,000.[10]
  12. C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke. 285,000.[11]
  13. Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks), The Essential Rumi. 250,000 in print.[12]

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  1. ↑ Richard Ouzounian, "Cat's still nifty at 50," Toronto Star, Mar. 1, 2007, thestar.com, Web, Oct. 1, 2011.
  2. ↑ Joan Acocella, Prophet Motive: The Kahlil Gibrab Phenomenon," The New Yorker, January 7, 2008, Conde Nast, Web, Sep. 18, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Robert Service: Under the Spell of the Yukon" by Enid Mallory, YukonBooks.com, Web, Apr. 4, 2011
  4. ↑ "Jewel Kircher," HollywoodPulse.com, Web, July 20, 2011.
  5. ↑ Thomas Seccombe, "Tupper, Martin Farquhar" in Lee, Sidney Dictionary of National Biography (edited by Sidney Lee) 57, 318-320. London: Smith, Elder, 1899. Web, Apr. 28, 2021.
  6. ↑ Edgar Albert Guest 1881-1959, Poetry Foundation, Web, Jan. 20, 2012.
  7. ↑ Alice Duer Miller home page. Web, Apr. 14, 2013.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Birth of the Beat generation: 45th anniversary of "Howl" read at Six Gallery," San Francisco Chronicle, October 28, 2000, UPenn.edu, Web, July 20, 2011.
  9. ↑ The Tractarians and the Liturgy, The Old High Churchman, Blogspot, Web, Sep. 10. 2013.
  10. ↑ "The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918," Goodreads.com, Web, Aug. 8, 2011.
  11. ↑ Dennis, Clarence Michael James (1876–1938) Australian Dictionary of Biography, Web, Mar. 4, 2012.
  12. ↑ Ptolemy Tompkins, "Rumi Rules!", Time, Oct. 29, 2002, Web, July 20, 2011.

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