A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present -[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.--Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London-Delightful.---New York Times Book Review Poetry 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 4,000 years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our view of the world - such as Shakespeare, Whitman and Yeats - and more recent poets like Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, and Marianne Moore who have started to question what makes a poem -great- in the first place. Little Histories - Inspiring Guides for Curious Minds
