A little history of poetry

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A little history of poetry

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John Carey

Language

eng

Summary

What is poetry? If music is sound organised in a particular way, poetry is a way of organising 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

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StDuBDS

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809.1
809.1

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illustrations

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index present

Intended audience

Specialized

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non fiction

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specialized

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A little history of poetry, John Carey

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A little history of poetry

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The work A little history of poetry represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.