A little history of poetry

John Carey: A Little History of Poetry. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2020

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1 Gods, Heroes and Monsters. The Epic of Gilgamesh

2 War, Adventure, Love. Homer, Sappho

3 Latin Classics. Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Catullus, Juvenal

4 Anglo-Saxon Poetry. Beowulf, Laments and Riddles

5 Continental Masters of the Middle Ages. Dante, Daniel, Petrarch, Villon

6 A European Poet. Chaucer

7 Poets of the Seen World and the Unseen. The Gawain Poet, Hafez, Langland

8 Tudor Court Poets. Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Spenser

9 Elizabethan Love Poets. Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney

10 Copernicus in Poetry. John Donne

11 An Age of Individualism. Jonson, Herrick, Marvell

12 Religious Individualists. Herbert, Vaughan, Traherne

13 Poetry from the World Beyond. John Milton

14 The Augustan Age. Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith

15 The Other Eighteenth Century. Montagu, Egerton, Finch, Tollet, Leapor, Yearsley, Barbauld, Blamire, Baillie, Wheatley, Duck, Clare, Thomson, Cowper, Crabbe, Gray, Smart

16 Communal Poetry. Popular Ballads and Hymns

17 Lyrical Ballads, and after. Wordsworth and Coleridge

18 Second-Generation Romantics. Keats and Shelley

19 Romantic Eccentrics. Blake, Byron, Burns

20 From Romanticism to Modernism in German Poetry. Goethe, Heine, Rilke

21 Making Russian Literature. Pushkin, Lermontov

22 Great Victorians. Tennyson, Browning, Clough, Arnold

23 Reform, Resolve and Religion: Victorian Women Poets. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Brontë, Christina Rossetti

24 American Revolutionaries. Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson

25 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

26 New Voices at the End of an Era. Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Hopkins

27 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

28 Poetry of The First World War. Stadler, Toller, Grenfell, Sassoon, Owen, Rosenberg, Gurney, Cole, Cannan, Sinclair, Mccrae

29 The Great Escapist. W.B. Yeats

30 Inventing Modernism. Eliot, Pound

31 West Meets East. Waley, Pound, The Imagists

32 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

33 Getting Over Modernism. Marianne Moore And Elizabeth Bishop

34 The Thirties Poets. Auden, Spender, Macneice

35 Poetry of The Second World War. Douglas, Lewis, Keyes, Fuller, Ross, Causley, Reed, Simpson, Shapiro, Wilbur, Jarrell, Pudney, Ewart, Sitwell, Feinstein, Stanley-Wrench, Clark

36 American Confessional Poets, and Others. Lowell, Berryman, Snodgrass, Sexton, Roethke

37 The Movement Poets and Associates. Larkin, Enright, Jennings, Gunn, Betjeman, Stevie Smith

38 Fatal Attractions. Hughes, Plath

39 Poets in Politics. Tagore, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Mayakovsky, Brodsky, Lorca, Neruda, Paz, Seferis, Seifert, Herbert, Macdiarmid, R.S. Thomas, Amichai

40 Poets Who Cross Boundaries. Heaney, Walcott, Angelou, Oliver, Murray

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