Animal Poems (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857157168 ISBN 13: 9781857157161

Publisher: Everyman, 1994

Synopsis

This is a collection of classic animal poems. The poems include: Robert Burns's To a Mouse; Ted Hughes's Hawk Roosting; Christopher Smart's My Cat Jeoffry; and e.e. cummings's grasshopper-shaped poem.

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About the Author

JOHN HOLLANDER is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. His first, A Crackling of Thorns, was chosen by W. H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He wrote eight books of criticism, including the award-winning Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse and The Work of Poetry, and edited or coedited twenty-two collections, among them The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, and (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983) Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls.

Mr. Hollander attended Columbia and Indiana Universities and was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. He taught at Connecticut College and Yale, and was a professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. In 1990 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. He died in August 2013.

From the Back Cover

From the East and 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. Cumming'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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1857157168
• ISBN 13: 9781857157161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Hollander John