Little History of Poetry
Little History of Poetry A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of…
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Little History of Poetry
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times " A] fizzing, exhilarating book."--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London "Delightful.'"--New York Times Book ReviewWhat is poetry? It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language.
But this Little History is about some that have not.John Carey tells the stories behind the world's greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. It does not always work--over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. Carey looks at poets whose works
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