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Literature & Fiction

The Great Cat: Poems About Cats (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

The Great Cat: Poems About Cats (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

This delightful anthology gives us a teeming litter of literary tributes to the ever-fascinating, ever-mystifying cat.

The feline has inspired poetic adoration since the days of the pharaohs, and the poems collected here cover an astonishing range of periods, cultures, and styles. Poets across the continents and centuries have described the feline familyâ€“from kittens to old toms, pussycats to panthersâ€“doing what they do best: sleeping, prowling, prancing, purring, sleeping some more, and gazing disdainfully at lesser beings like ourselves. Here are Yeatsâ€™s Minnaloushe, Christopher Smartâ€™s Jeoffry, Lewis Carrollâ€™s Cheshire Cat, T. S. Eliotâ€™s Rum Tum Tugger, William Blakeâ€™s tyger and Rilkeâ€™s panther. Here are tributes from Sufi mystics, medieval Chinese poets, and haiku masters of imperial Japan, from Chaucer, Shelley, Borges, Neruda, Dickinson, and Shakespeare. Here are the cats of Mother Goose, and the one who wore the hat for Dr. Seuss.

The Great Cat will delight cat lovers everywhere, celebrating as it does the beauty, the mystery, the gravity, the grace, and, of course, the unassailable superiority of the cat.
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781400043347
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2005-05-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400043347

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