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A Little History of Poetry William Leatherbarrow (Introduction and colourful retelling of theAuthor: John Carey ISBN: 9780300255034 Publisher: Yale UP 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