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21%OFFEmily Fragos - The Great Cat - 9781841597645 - V9781841597645
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The Great Cat

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Description for The Great Cat Hardcover. 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. This book will be suitable for cat lovers everywhere. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 115 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.

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 family-from kittens to old toms, pussycats to panthers-doing what they do best: sleeping, prowling, prancing, purring, sleeping some more, and gazing disdainfully at lesser beings like ourselves. Here are Yeats's Minnaloushe, Christopher Smart's Jeoffry, Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, T. S. Eliot's Rum Tum Tugger, William Blake's tyger and Rilke's panther. Here are tributes from Sufi mystics, medieval Chinese poets, and haiku masters of imperial ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Series
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841597645
SKU
V9781841597645
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Ref
99-13

About Emily Fragos
Emily Fragos is an award-winning poet and editor of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets anthologies The Great Cat, The Dance, Music's Spell, Art and Artists, and Letters by Emily Dickinson. She lives in New York City.

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