 Author Name: KNOWLES, Susanne (Compiled by):
Title: CHORUS. An Anthology of Bird Poems.
Binding: Hard Cover
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: London Heinemann. 1969
Seller ID: 2543
Book in very good condition. Dustjacket in very good condition. 253pp. More than a hundred kinds of birds from albatross to yellowhammer seen through the eyes of poets of the Old World and the New, from the 4th century B.C. to 1969. From Aristophanes, who used them as political symbols, to the Australian poet who stood, motionless and enchanted, while a honeyeater pulled hairs from his head for nesting materials; from a Persian's bird parliment to Ogden Nash's four-line dismissal of canaries.
POEMS, POETRY, BIRDS, ANTHOLOGY, VERSE
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