The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's ReadersWas the experience of poetry or a cultural practice we now call poetry continuously available across the two and a half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting of language into memorable and moving rhythmic forms play a part in the lives of hearers and readers in Ancient Greece and Rome, Europe during Late Antiquity