Kith and Kin, Poems of Animal Life - Henry S. Salt

Kith and Kin, Poems of Animal Life

Various Writers, Henry S. Salt (Editor)

  • Publisher: George Bell & Sons Ltd., London
  • Published: 1901
  • Length: 95
  • Format: Hardback

Summary

Selection of 85 poems, some abridged, reflecting kinship of humans and animals.

56 writers, including W. Blake, E. B. Browning, R. Burns, Lord Byron, S. T. Coleridge, W. Cowper, O. Goldsmith, L. Hunt, J. Keats, H. W. Longfellow, A. Pope, P. B. Shelley, R. Southey, H. D. Thoreau, W. Whitman, W. Wordsworth.

“Where the non-human races are concerned—birds perhaps excepted—the treatment of animals in verse has been almost as bad as their treatment in actual life.”

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