An anthology of poetry, prose and some drama in which all the selections feature an animal. The range of the excerpted pieces is as various as the animals featured: the frog and the halcyon, the elephant and the centaur, the fly and the fish and many more. "A Bestiary" was first published in the US in 1955 in a limited edition. Contributors include Blake, Bunyan, Clare, Benjamin Disraeli, Kafka, Kipling on the ape, T.E. Lawrence on the camel, Milton on the serpent, Pepys, Sterne on the fly from "Tristram Shandy", Tennyson ...
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An anthology of poetry, prose and some drama in which all the selections feature an animal. The range of the excerpted pieces is as various as the animals featured: the frog and the halcyon, the elephant and the centaur, the fly and the fish and many more. "A Bestiary" was first published in the US in 1955 in a limited edition. Contributors include Blake, Bunyan, Clare, Benjamin Disraeli, Kafka, Kipling on the ape, T.E. Lawrence on the camel, Milton on the serpent, Pepys, Sterne on the fly from "Tristram Shandy", Tennyson and Gilbert White. Among the Americans are Elizabeth Bishop, William Faulkner, Herman Melville, Marianne Moore and Walt Whitman. There are also contributions from Homer, Pliny and Plutarch, Aesop, Grimm and Darwin.
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Fine bright dark blue boards with silver design (Calder) in illustrated glassine dustjacket which is close to fine. Text is lovely throughout with wonderful collaboration between poet and artist. Gift quality. With 50 drawings.
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Good. Illustrated by Alexander Calder. Fine in very good dustwrapper creasing on the front flap and light wrinkling on the front panel. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
