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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.
The price of "Animal Poems (Hardcover Book)" at Downtown Comics in Castleton is USD $20.00.
The publisher of "Animal Poems (Hardcover Book)" is Knopf Publishing.
The genre of "Animal Poems (Hardcover Book)" is Poetry - Anthologies (multiple authors).
"Animal Poems (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Books (Hardcover).
The writer of "Animal Poems (Hardcover Book)" is John Hollander.