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Animal Poems (Everyman's Library)
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Edited by John Hollander
Random House, Inc
Due/Published
August 1994, 256 pages,
cloth
ISBN
0679436316
An anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet praises the whale. Shakespeare sympathizes with the hunted hare. Marianne Moore tries to catch a jelly-fish. Virgil and Emily Dickinson contemplate Bees. Kipling lulls a baby seal to sleep. From East to West, from ancient times to modern, from Mei Yu Ch'en on swarming mosquitoes to William Cullen Bryant's solitary waterfowl and Rainer Maria Rilke's enchanted gazelle, from Auden on cats and dogs to E.E. Cummings's verse in the shape of a grasshopper to James Merrill's vision of the octopus, here—selected by John Hollander—are 136 poems that provide exhilarating access to literature's glorious lyric zoo. |
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