The Dover Anthology of Bird Poetry - Various - Dover Thrift Editions

The Dover Anthology of Bird Poetry by Various brings together poems that draw on birds as a rich source of literary inspiration. This Dover Thrift Editions volume is published in paperback.

Key details

• Author: Various
• Series: Dover Thrift Editions
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 112
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 28 June 2024

Synopsis

Poets have repeatedly turned to birds as metaphors and symbols, using them to explore ideas including death, eternity, life, love, power, religious belief and superstition. Spanning work from the Elizabethan era through to the twentieth century, this anthology traces how different writers have used a wide range of birds to express thought and feeling.

The selection ranges from classic to more contemporary voices, with poems by Samuel Beckett, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams and William Butler Yeats, among others. Suitable for classroom use, independent study and personal reading.

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