The Poetry of Cats

Samuel Carr, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, Ted Hughes, Walter De la Mare, Eleanor Farjeon, Thomas Hardy, Giles Lytton Strachey, William Wordsworth, Ford Madox Ford, Anonymous, William Cowper, Charles Baudelaire, John Keats, Jean de La Fontaine, Jonathan Swift, J. G. Whittier, Louis MacNeice, Harold Monro, William Butler Yeats, Richard Church, Ewart Milne, W. H. Davies, Hal Summers, A. S. J. Tessimond, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hood, A. C. Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, John Skelton, William Langland, Thomas Master, Thomas Gray, Christopher Smart, Anna Seward, Thomas Flatman, Izaak Walton, Joanna Baillie, James Boswell, Francis Scarfe, Matthew Arnold, Patrick R. Chalmers, A. L. Rowse, Robert Herrick, Edward Lear, Richard Garnett, Alexander Gray, Annabel Farjeon, Stevie Smith, Isabel Bolton, Rosamund Marriott Watson

This is a unique celebration of that most beautiful and self-possessed of creatures--the cat. More than 50 poems are included, reflecting every feline mood: the comic, the aristocratic, the lazy, the cunning, the fierce, the inscrutable. Lovers of cats and lovers of poetry will be delighted by the wide-ranging nature of the collection by poets such as T.S. Elliot, Ted Hughes, W.B. Yeats, William Wordsworth, Edward Lear and many others. One of the most attractive features of the book is the choice of pictures. A stunning selection of drawings and paintings by such artists and illustrators as Renoir, Manet, Picasso, Hogarth, Cruikshank and Lear add to the charm of the verse, making this a book to be treasured by cat lovers everywhere.

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