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Little History of Poetry, A

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Little History of Poetry, A

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SKU: 9780300232226 Category: Product ID: 38330

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Title: Little History of Poetry, A
Author: CAREY JOHN
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 10/03/2020
Imprint: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $18.95
Publishing status: Active

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature

What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work-over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. 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. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world, such as Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Yeats. He also looks at more recent poets, like Derek Walcott, Marianne Moore, and Maya Angelou, who have started to question what makes a poem \”great\” in the first place. This little history shines a light on the richness and variation of the world’s poems-and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing.

Series: Little Histories
ISBN: 9780300232226
Dimension: 216mm X 140mm
Pages: 304

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Dimensions 216 × 140 mm