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How Poetry Works

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The Enlightenment and Poetry?

A young man named william shakespeare, thomas marlow, they started the verse drama movement. And so initially you've got poetry is om as, just oral history, basically. The greeks come along, and then the romans codify it and and make formal structures out of it. Then everybody starts to undo those. It's getting further and further away fro the greeks and romans until we hit the enlightenment period - from about the mid seventeenth century till almost the eighteenth century,. i should say, am. They went back and basily venerated the greek and roman traditions, which seems weird to me. But some somebody, somebody was struck

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