Animal Poems

by John Hollander (Editor)

This is a collection of classic animal poems. The poems include: Robert Burns's To a Mouse; Ted Hughes's Hawk Roosting; Christopher Smart's My Cat Jeoffry; and e.e. cummings's grasshopper-shaped poem.

Genres: Poetry, Animals

256 pages, Hardcover

First published October 18, 1994

Reviews

[Jenny Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice collection of poems, some better than others obviously. A quick read, I took it to work as something to read on my short breaks. Recommend it for anyone who likes poems, or wants to get into reading poems.

[Sean]

My dog-eared poems:
"The Cow in Apple Time," Robert Frost
"Bat," D. H. Lawrence
"The Bear," Ted Hughes
"Snake," J. D. McClatchy
"The Toad," Tristan Corbiere
"The Crayfish," Apollinaire
"The Octopus," James Merrill
"The Kraken," Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Leviathan," W. S. Merwin
"The Woes of the Crab," Anon.
"The Flamingos," Rainer Maria Rilke
"A Noiseless, Patient Spider," Walt Whitman
"Dragonfly," J. D. McClatchy
"Adam's Task," John Hollander

Which leads me to reflect: I am a sucker for a great last line. Kind of don't care what came before it.

[Yolanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some new favourites in here for me, I think - and good material for classes I'm teaching.

Nice, also, to be reminded of Rab Burns' less twee poetry (I'm not a fan of the Haggis poem.)

[Kent Ellgren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great fun collection of poems

[ARandomNugget · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked these poems.

[Zachary Weiss · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good collection of poems, so good and some ok. The one that stands out the most is The Mongrel by Thomas Hardy

[Christopher Ru]

the most boring book that i ever read