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A little history of poetry

Hardcover • 2020 • English • 1. edition

A little history of poetry

By John Carey

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About the book

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 a...Show more

Literary studies: poetry and poets

Book details

ISBN

9780300232226

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2020

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

A little history of poetry

Format

Hardcover

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