Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | 809.1 CAR (Browse shelf) | Available | 033076 |
809.04 STR Oxford guide to contemporary writing | 809.04 STU Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature | 809.1 BLO Anxiety of influence : a theory of poetry | 809.1 CAR Little history of poetry | 809.1 HIR How to read a poem : and fall in love with poetry | 809.103 PAZ Children of the mire : modern poetry from Romanticism to the avant-garde | 809.104 BRO Less than one : selected essays |
Includes index.
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.
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