Bestiary: An Anthology of Poems about Animals
256 pages
|Published: 21 Oct 1996
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ISBN: 9781883319489
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Frog Books
Publication date: 21 October 1996
Description
In Bestiary, Stephen Mitchell has collected animal poems from many ages and many cultures. He includes excerpts from ancient masterpieces like “The Hymn to the Sun” by Pharaoh Amen-hotep IV, The Book of Job, and The Book of Psalms; haiku by Basho, Buson, and Issa; poems by Milton and Smart, Blake and Burns, Whitman and Emily Dickenson, Hardy and Hopkins... This is a gook of passionate and humorous encounters with the vibrant world of animals.