A Little History of Poetry, John Carey biographies & memoirs Part history

Part history

But we can do something: We can climb the SPIRE―Ben-Shahar’s five-step staircase to hope and purpose

Vaclav Havel

actually to find it

and murder walks abroad

A Little History of Poetry, John Carey biographies & memoirs Part historyA 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 Times [A] fizzing, exhilarating book.Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London Delightful.New York Times Book Review 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