What Is Poetry?: Language and Memory in the Poems of the World by Nigel Fabb

What Is Poetry?: Language and Memory in the Poems of the World

Nigel Fabb

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nonfiction art literary poetry
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Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that ...

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