The Dover Anthology of Bird Poetry - Paperback

by Nz Kay (Editor)

Poets have long treated birds as a captivating source of inspiration as metaphors, references, and symbols of death, eternity, life, love, power, religious beliefs, and superstitions. Others have used different types of birds to express their thoughts and emotions. This volume highlights these remarkable creatures as they take flight from the Elizabethan era through the twentieth century. Selections from classic to contemporary authors include poems by William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, William Butler Yeats, and others. This anthology is ideal for classroom use, independent study, and personal perusal.

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Poets have long treated birds as a captivating source of inspiration. They use birds as compelling symbols of beauty, death, eternity, life, love, power, religious beliefs, and superstitions.
The engaging and profound selections from classic to contemporary authors include poems by William Blake, Anne Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, William Butler Yeats, and more than two dozen others. This anthology is ideal for classroom use, independent study, and personal perusal.