{"id":19770,"date":"2024-10-24T23:03:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T23:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/a-little-history-of-poetry\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T23:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T23:03:19","slug":"a-little-history-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/a-little-history-of-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little History of Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nPrice: <span style=\"color:#b12704\">$0.99<\/span><br \/><i><small>(as of Oct 24, 2024 23:03:19 UTC &#8211; <span class=\"wp_automatic_amazon_disclaimer\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/small><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/B083ZHL1VB?tag=musadiqhus0f2-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/valvepress.s3.amazonaws.com\/imgs\/buy_now.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Bookseller (UK) Editor&#8217;s Choice<\/p>\n<p>A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8211; over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. This little history is about some that have not.<\/p>\n<p>John Carey tells the stories behind the world\u2019s 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 \u201cgreat\u201d in the first place. This little history shines a light on the richness and variation of the world\u2019s poems &#8211; and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Bookseller (UK) Editor&#8217;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? 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