Paul Muldoon: The Faber Book of Beasts
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Author: Paul Muldoon
Number of Pages: 320 pages
Published Date: 19 Oct 1998
Publisher: FABER & FABER
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780571195473
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The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet. The animal kingdom has prompted some of the liveliest and most enjoyable writing by poets, from Homer to our contemporaries. Among the creatures gathered here, tame or wild; common or exotic, are mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, and others perhaps more fanciful than real. A zoologist's delight. There is, too, a moral or philosophical purpose. As Paul Muldoon says in his introduction: 'We are most human in the presence of animals.' And it is just this sense of how our humanity is illuminated by the contemplation of bestial life that he has set out to celebrate. The results are wonderfully rich and thought-provoking.
