On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds by McClatchy, J. D.
On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds by McClatchy, J. D.

On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds

From backyard to barnyard, from hawks to hummingbirds, from pelicans to peacocks, from Coleridge's albatross to Keats's...
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Author: J. D. McClatchy
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Language: English
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On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds by McClatchy, J. D.

On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds

CHF 27.86
On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds by McClatchy, J. D.

On Wings of Song: Poems about Birds

CHF 27.86
Author: J. D. McClatchy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From backyard to barnyard, from hawks to hummingbirds, from pelicans to peacocks, from Coleridge's albatross to Keats's nightingale to Poe's raven-all manner of feathered beings, the inspiration for poetic flights of fancy through the ages, are gathered together in this delightful volume.

Some of the winged treasures: Emily Dickinson on the jay; Gertrude Stein on pigeons; Seamus Heaney on turkeys; Tennyson on the eagle; Spenser on the merry cuckoo; Amy Clampitt on the whippoorwill; Po Ch -i on cranes; John Updike on seagulls; W.S. Merwin on the duck; Elizabeth Bishop on the sandpiper; Rilke on flamingoes; Margaret Atwood on vultures; the Bible on the ostrich; Sylvia Plath on the owl; Melville on the hawk; Yeats on wild swans; Virgil on the harpies; Thomas Hardy on the darkling thrush; and Wallace Stevens on thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird.

Author: J. D. McClatchy
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 03/28/2000
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 6.52h x 4.44w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780375407499

About the Author
J. D. McClatchy is the author of five collections of poems: Scenes From Another Life, Stars Principal, The Rest of the Way, Ten Commandments, and Hazmat. He has also written two books of essays: White Paper and Twenty Questions. He has edited many other books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, Poets on Painters, and Horace: The Odes. In addition, he edits The Voice of the Poet series for Random House AudioBooks, and has written seven opera libretti. He is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at Princeton, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins, and is now a professor at Yale, where since 1991 he has edited The Yale Review. He lives in Stonington, Connecticut.
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