How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them

'An entertaining guide to the rhyme and reason of poetry' -- The Idler

How history's most influential and inspiring poets – from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara – can teach us to better understand the world.

How did the greatest poets in history make the world anew? And what can we learn from the magic, wisdom and humour of their poetry? From the genius of the Ancient Greeks through to the love poetry and metaphysics of the Renaissance, through to the New York poets of the 20...