What is poetry? : language and memory in the poems of the world /

"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 each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into t...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Fabb, Nigel
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Poetry. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Online Access:	Cover image