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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Carey, John (1934-....)
Titre(s) : A little history of poetry [Texte imprimé] / John Carey
Publication : New Haven [Conn.] : Yale university press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : viii, 312 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Collection : [Little histories]
Lien à la collection : Little histories
Note(s) : Series statement from publisher's website. - Includes index
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 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. 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's
poems--and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing
Sujet(s) : Poésie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300232226. - ISBN 0300232225 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465840463
Notice n° :
FRBNF46584046
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Gods, heroes and monsters : The Epic of Gilgamesh -- ; War, adventure, love : Homer,
Sappho -- ; Latin classics : Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Catullus, Juvenal -- ; Anglo-Saxon
poetry : Beowulf, laments and riddles -- ; Continental masters of the Middle Ages
: Dante, Daniel, Petrarch, Villon -- ; A European poet : Chaucer -- ; Poets of the
seen world and the unseen : The Gawain poet, Hafez, Langland -- ; Tudor Court poets
: Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser -- ; Elizabethan love poets : Shakespeare, Marlowe,
Sidney -- ; Copernicus in poetry : John Donne -- ; An age of individualism : Jonson,
Herrick, Marvell -- ; Religious individualists : Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne -- ; Poetry
from the world beyond : John Milton -- ; The Augustan age : Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson,
Goldsmith -- ; The other Eighteenth Century : Montagu, Egerton, Finch, Tollet, Leapor,
Yearsley, Barbauld, Blamire, Baillie, Wheatley, Duck, Clare, Thomson, Cowper, Crabbe,
Gray, Smart -- ; Communal poetry : popular ballads and hymns -- ; Lyrical ballads,
and after : Wordsworth and Coleridge -- ; Second-generation romantics : Keats and
Shelley -- ; Romantic eccentrics : Blake, Byron, Burns -- ; From Romanticism to Modernism
in German poetry : Goethe, Heine, Rilke -- ; Making Russian literature : Pushkin,
Lermontov -- ; Great Victorians : Tennyson, Browning, Clough, Arnold -- ; Reform,
resolve and religion, Victorian women poets : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Brontë,
Christina Rossetti -- ; American revolutionaries : Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson --
; Shaking the foundations : Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Valéry, Dylan
Thomas, Edward Lear, Charles Dodgson, Swinburne, Katharine Harris Bradley, Edith Emma
Cooper, Charlotte Mew, Oscar Wilde -- ; New voices at the end of an era : Hardy, Housman,
Kipling, Hopkins -- ; The Georgian poets : Edward Thomas and Robert Frost, Rupert
Brooke, Walter de la Mare, W.H. Davies, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, W.W. Gibson,
Robert Graves, D.H. Lawrence -- ; Poetry of the First World War : Stadler, Toller,
Grenfell, Sassoon, Owen, Rosenberg, Gurney, Cole, Cannan, Sinclair, McCrae -- ; The
great escapist : W.B. Yeats -- ; Inventing Modernism : Eliot, Pound -- ; West meets
East : Waley, Pound, the Imagists -- ; American Modernists : Wallace Stevens, Hart
Crane, William Carlos Williams, Esther Popel, Helene Johnson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson,
Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes -- ; Getting
over Modernism : Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop -- ; The Thirties poets : Auden,
Spender, MacNeice -- ; Poetry of the Second World War : Douglas, Lewis, Keyes, Fuller,
Ross, Causley, Reed, Simpson, Shapiro, Wilbur, Jarrell, Pudney, Ewart, Sitwell, Feinstein,
Stanley-Wrench, Clark -- ; American confessional poets, and others : Lowell, Berryman,
Snodgrass, Sexton, Roethke -- ; The movement poets and associates : Larkin, Enright,
Jennings, Gunn, Betjeman, Stevie Smith -- ; Fatal attractions : Hughes, Plath -- ;
Poets in politics : Tagore, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Brodsky, Lorca, Neruda,
Paz, Seferis, Seifert, Herbert, MacDiarmid, R.S. Thomas, Amichai -- ; Poets who cross
boundaries : Heaney, Walcott, Angelou, Oliver, Murray.
