Sunday Best
80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews
ISBN: PB: 9780300273021,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
320 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
320 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
A collection of John Carey's greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews – amassed over a lifetime of writing.
In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times – a job he st...
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100 Poets
A Little Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780300266993,
Yale University Press,
September 2022
280 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
280 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
A poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devastation of conquests. Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select th...
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Little History of Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9780300255034,
ISBN: HB: 9780300232226,
Yale University Press,
February 2021
320 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
320 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
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 h...
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