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    "description": "A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature\n\nWhat 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\u2014over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. This little history is about some that have not.\n\nJohn 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 \"great\" in the first place. This little history shines a light on the richness and variation of the world\u2019s poems\u2014and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing. ",
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