Brush Up Your Poetry by Michael Macrone

Book Name	Brush Up Your Poetry
Author	Michael Macrone
Publish Year	1996
Publisher	Cader Company Inc.
Language	English
Genre	Poetry
ISBN	0-8362-2145-1
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Brush Up your Poetry Review:

Brush Up Your Poetry is very precious guide for thos people who are interested in english poetry. this book consists of some master piece of the greatest poets of english language.Brush Up Your Poetry is written by Michael Macrone.
Poetry is as old as Western culture itself. Our earliest narratives— including the Hebrew Bible and the works of Homer—are written in verse. For centuries, poetry was synonymous with literature; practically every great literary work, and most minor ones, were verse: the Greek drama, the Classical epics, The Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's plays and sonnets—all are written in verse.
Poetry obviously doesn't get the respect it used to. There's been a recent revival of interest, in cafés, in bookstores, and even on television. But for many, poetry is just something they were forced to read in school. They find it difficult and pretentious, or vague and melodramatic. Poetry still has prestige, but few read or speak it.
At least, few realize they're speaking it. Hardly a day goes by when you don't either hear or quote a poetic phrase. It might not even sound like verse—take "getting and spending," coined by William Wordsworth, or "in one ear and out the other," by Chaucer. You may associate poetry with metaphors and symbols, such as Eliot's wasteland or Poe's croaking raven. But more often cited are the everyday truths well said, elegant yet direct: "truth is stranger than fiction" (Lord Byron), "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" (Alexander Pope), or "things fall apart" (W.B.Yeats).