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''The Faber Book of Beasts is a generous and intelligent round- up of old favourites, new juxtapositions, and poems we mightn''t know about ... Will set heads shaking, as well as nodding with pleasure.'' Independent

William Wordsworth''s ''To a Skylark''
W.B. Yeats'' ''Leda and the Swan''
Elizabeth Bishop''s ''The Moose''
D.H. Lawrence''s ''Bat''
Marianne Moore''s ''Elephants''
William Blake''s ''The Tyger''
Gerard Manley Hopkins'' ''The Windhover''
Thom Gunn''s ''The Snail''
Seamus Heaney''s ''Otter''
John Donne''s ''The Flea''
Christopher Smart''s ''My Cat Jeoffry''
''Baa Baa Black Sheep''

From childhood rhymes to canonical classics, Homer to Ted Hughes, this eclectic poetry anthology celebrating the earth''s creatures brims with beastly delights. Celebrated poet Paul Muldoon''s bestiary shows that we are ''most human in the pre

The Faber Book of Beasts

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 19 October 1998
      ISBN-13 9780571195473
      978-0571195473
      ISBN-10 0571195474
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      Fiction Poetry Non Fiction Natural History Domestic animals and pets

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''The Faber Book of Beasts is a generous and intelligent round- up of old favourites, new juxtapositions, and poems we mightn''t know about ... Will set heads shaking, as well as nodding with pleasure.'' Independent

      William Wordsworth''s ''To a Skylark''
      W.B. Yeats'' ''Leda and the Swan''
      Elizabeth Bishop''s ''The Moose''
      D.H. Lawrence''s ''Bat''
      Marianne Moore''s ''Elephants''
      William Blake''s ''The Tyger''
      Gerard Manley Hopkins'' ''The Windhover''
      Thom Gunn''s ''The Snail''
      Seamus Heaney''s ''Otter''
      John Donne''s ''The Flea''
      Christopher Smart''s ''My Cat Jeoffry''
      ''Baa Baa Black Sheep''

      From childhood rhymes to canonical classics, Homer to Ted Hughes, this eclectic poetry anthology celebrating the earth''s creatures brims with beastly delights. Celebrated poet Paul Muldoon''s bestiary shows that we are ''most human in the pre

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