Animals in classic American poetry : how natural history inspired great verse /
"The ten essays in Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired Great Verse showcase how the natural history of and imagery relating to animals have inspired some of America's best-known and most beloved poets. The book highlights exceptional literary verse from the fir...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
[2025]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Integrative natural history series.
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| Summary: | "The ten essays in Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired Great Verse showcase how the natural history of and imagery relating to animals have inspired some of America's best-known and most beloved poets. The book highlights exceptional literary verse from the first American to publish a book of poems, Puritan Anne Bradstreet in the seventeenth century, to the African American writer Yusef Komunyakaa and the Native American Joy Harjo, a recent US poet laureate, in the twenty-first century. Essays on the well-known figures Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop round out this pathbreaking collection. Animals in Classic American Poetry provides a glimpse into the brilliant, burrowing, and passionate minds of some of America's most revered poets. Whether it is Poe's haunting, hybrid description of a raven, Emily Dickinson's nostalgic yet chilling observations about a garter snake, or Robert Frost's unsettled and unsettling ruminations about a spider consuming a moth, each poet reflects on what it means to be a nonhuman and a human animal"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 235 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781648433030 1648433030 |