Animal Poems, Hardcover/John Hollander
Descriere
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.
Despre autor
John Hollander a fost un poet și critic literar american. La momentul morții, era profesor emerit Sterling de limba engleză la Universitatea Yale, predând anterior la Connecticut College, Hunter College și CUNY Graduate Center. A fost un Fellow MacArthur în 1990 și poet laureat al Connecticut între 2007–2009.
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