Buzz Words. Poems About Insects; Everyman, 2021
- Издатель: Everyman
- ISBN: 9781841598215
EAN: 978-1-84159-821-5
- Книги: Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке
- ID: 13697117
Описание
Given that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there is a rich body of verse on the creeping, scuttling, flitting, stinging things with which we share our planet.
Many cultures have centuries-old traditions of insect poetry. In China,where noblewomen of the Tang dynasty kept crickets in gold cages-countless songs were written in praise of these 'insect musicians'. The haiku masters of Japan were similarly inspired, though spread their net wider to include less prepossessing bugs such as houseflies, fleas and mosquitoes. In the West, poems about insects date back to the ancient Greeks, and insects feature frequently in European literature from the 16th century onwards.
The poets collected here range from Donne, Marvell, Keats and Wordsworth; Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Christina Rossetti, to Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Oliver, Ted Hughes, Paul Muldoon and Alice Oswald. In translation there is verse by - amongst others - Meleager and Tu Fu, Ivan Turgenev, Victor Hugo, Paul Valery, Pablo Neruda, Antonio Machado and Xi Chuan.
Bees, butterflies and beetles, cockroaches and caterpillars, fireflies and dragonflies, ladybirds and glowworms--the miniature creatures that adorn these pages are as varied as the poetic talents that celebrate them.
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Год издания | 2021 |
Издатель | Everyman |
Серия | Everyman`s Library Pocket Poets |
ISBN | 9781841598215 |
Обложка | твердый переплёт, суперобложка |
Кол-во страниц | 256 |
Жанр | проза на иностранном языке |
Оформление обложки | суперобложка |
Возрастное ограничение | 16+ |
Вес | 0.22 |
Количество книг | 1 |
Тип обложки | твердая |
Количество страниц | 256 |
Издательство | Everyman |
Автор(ы) | без автора |
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