A Little History of Poetry By: John Carey [Audiobook]

Author: John Carey
Narrated by: Ralph Lister

The Bookseller (UK) Editor’s Choice

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.

General Information
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 Title:                  A Little History of Poetry
 Author:                 John Carey
 Read By:                Ralph Lister
 Copyright:              2020
 Audiobook Copyright:    2020
 Genre:                  Audiobook
 Publisher:              Blackstone Publishing
 Abridged:               No
Original Media Information
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 Media:                  Downloaded
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              New
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Book Description
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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 worlds 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 worlds poems - and the elusive quality that makes 
them all the more enticing.

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