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What is poetry? If music is sound organised in a particular way, poetry is a way of organising 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.
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A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry
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A collection of John Carey’s greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews-amassed over a lifetime of writing
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A wonderfully readable anthology of our greatest poetry, chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry
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John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him – an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford’s oldest English literature professorship. He frankly portrays the snobberies and rituals of 1950s Oxford, but also his inspiring meetings with writers and poets – Auden, Graves, Larkin, Heaney – and his 40-year stint as a lead book-reviewer for the Sunday Times.
