On Wings of Song: Poems About Birds (Everyman's Library Pocket

On Wings of Song: Poems About Birds (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

From backyard to barnyard, from hawks to hummingbirds, from pelicans to peacocks, from Coleridge's albatross to Keats's nightingale to Poe's raven-all manner of feathered beings, the inspiration for poetic flights of fancy through the ages, are gathered together in this delightful volume.

Some of the winged treasures: Emily Dickinson on the jay; Gertrude Stein on pigeons; Seamus Heaney on turkeys; Tennyson on the eagle; Spenser on the merry cuckoo; Amy Clampitt on the whippoorwill; Po ChÃ¼-i on cranes; John Updike on seagulls; W.S. Merwin on the duck; Elizabeth Bishop on the sandpiper; Rilke on flamingoes; Margaret Atwood on vultures; the Bible on the ostrich; Sylvia Plath on the owl; Melville on the hawk; Yeats on wild swans; Virgil on the harpies; Thomas Hardy on the darkling thrush; and Wallace Stevens on thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird.
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2000-03-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375407499

On Wings of Song: Poems About Birds (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)