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