A little history of poetry
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020].
Physical Description
viii, 312 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
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Natrona Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
809.1 CAREY
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Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020].
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Book
Language
English
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Includes index.
Summary
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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Carey, J. (2020). A little history of poetry . Yale University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Carey, John, 1934-. 2020. A Little History of Poetry. Yale University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Carey, John, 1934-. A Little History of Poetry Yale University Press, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Carey, John. A Little History of Poetry Yale University Press, 2020.
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