Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns or lyrics.

Poetry, and discussions of it, have a long history. Early attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy.[1] Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition and rhyme, and emphasised the aesthetics which distinguish poetry
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Rebound
For Everyone

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    Best of William Shakespeare
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    Where the Sidewalk Ends
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    Leaves of Grass
    A Light in the Attic
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    Howl and Other Poems
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    Beowulf
    The Sun and Her Flowers
    Paradise Lost
    The Iliad
    Sonnets
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