The Great Cat by Emily Fragos

The Great Cat by Emily Fragos

This delightful anthology gives us a teeming litter of literary tributes to the ever-fascinating, ever-mystifying cat.

The feline has inspired poetic adoration since the days of the pharaohs, and the poems collected here cover an astonishing range of periods, cultures, and styles. Poets across the continents and centuries have described the feline family-from kittens to old toms, pussycats to panthers-doing what they do best: sleeping, prowling, prancing, purring, sleeping some more, and gazing disdainfully at lesser beings like ourselves. Here are Yeats's Minnaloushe, Christopher Smart's Jeoffry, Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat, T. S. Eliot's Rum Tum Tugger, William Blake's tyger and Rilke's panther. Here are tributes from Sufi mystics, medieval Chinese poets, and haiku masters of imperial Japan, from Chaucer, Shelley, Borges, Neruda, Dickinson, and Shakespeare. Here are the cats of Mother Goose, and the one who wore the hat for Dr. Seuss.

The Great Cat will delight cat lovers everywhere, celebrating as it does the beauty, the mystery, the gravity, the grace, and, of course, the unassailable superiority of the cat.

EMILY FRAGOS is an award-winning poet and the editor of The Big Cat, Music's Magic, The Dance, and Letters by Emily Dickinson, all published by Pocket Poet.

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ISBN 13	9781400043347
ISBN 10	1400043344
Title	The Great Cat
Author	Emily Fragos
Series	Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2005-05-03
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.