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The Faber Book of Beasts

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The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet. The animal kingdom has prompted some of the liveliest and most enjoyable writing by poets, from Homer to our contemporaries. Among the creatures gathered here, tame or wild; common or exotic, are mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, and others perhaps more fanciful than real. A zoologist's delight.

There is, too, a moral or philosophical purpose. As Paul Muldoon says in his introduction: 'We are most human in the presence of animals.' And it is just this sense of how our humanity is illuminated by the contemplation of bestial life that he has set out to celebrate. The results are wonderfully rich and thought-provoking.
Format:
Pages:
295 pages
Publication:
2010
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Edition:
New edition, Main
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0571195474
ISBN13:
9780571195473
kindle Asin:
0571195474

The Faber Book of Beasts

Unknown
3.60/5 (618 ratings)
Read Download
The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet. The animal kingdom has prompted some of the liveliest and most enjoyable writing by poets, from Homer to our contemporaries. Among the creatures gathered here, tame or wild; common or exotic, are mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, and others perhaps more fanciful than real. A zoologist's delight.

There is, too, a moral or philosophical purpose. As Paul Muldoon says in his introduction: 'We are most human in the presence of animals.' And it is just this sense of how our humanity is illuminated by the contemplation of bestial life that he has set out to celebrate. The results are wonderfully rich and thought-provoking.
Format:
Pages:
295 pages
Publication:
2010
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Edition:
New edition, Main
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0571195474
ISBN13:
9780571195473
kindle Asin:
0571195474

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