Author: Prentice Hall PTR
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780134372150
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: Rex Kevin Sadler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Author: John Carey
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252528
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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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 The Times and Sunday Times, Best Books of 2020 “[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times 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. But 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. For readers both young and old, this little history shines a light for readers on the richness of the world’s poems—and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing.

Author: T. A. S. Hallyer
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Richard P. Sugg
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Louis Untermeyer
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Louis Untermeyer
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Laurie Rozakis
Publisher: Arco Pub
ISBN: 9780028621890
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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A guide to understanding and appreciating poetry reviews all types of poetic verse, explains meter and rhyme, defines poetic devices, and offers analyses of classic and modern poems

Author: Stephanie Burt
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465094511
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another--and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how to find more poems once they have some poems they like, and how to connect the poetry of the past to the poetry of the present. Burt moves seamlessly from Shakespeare and other classics to the contemporary poetry circulated on Tumblr and Twitter. She challenges the assumptions that many of us make about "poetry," whether we think we like it or think we don't, in order to help us cherish--and distinguish among--individual poems. A masterful guide to a sometimes confounding genre, Don't Read Poetry will instruct and delight ingénues and cognoscenti alike.

Author: Prentice-Hall Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780134372082
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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A collection of poems divided into topics.