{"product_id":"a-little-history-of-poetry-by-john-carey-9780300255034","title":"A Little History of Poetry","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature—selected as the literature book of the year by the London \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, London\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Delightful.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat 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 \u003cem\u003eLittle History\u003c\/em\u003e is about some that have not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohn 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 examines 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595663065324,"sku":"9780300255034","price":44.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300255034-a-little-history-of-poetry.jpg?v=1777899602","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-little-history-of-poetry-by-john-carey-9780300255034","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}