The Faber Book of Beasts

by Paul Muldoon (Editor)

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An anthology of poems about creatures of many kinds, including some perhaps more fanciful than real. The poets range from Homer to the present.

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Paul Muldoon
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Paul Muldoon was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. He lives with his wife, the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz, & his two children in New Jersey, & teaches at Princeton University. In 1999 he was elected Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Alighieri, Dante (Contributor)
Amichai, Yehuda (Contributor)
Arp, Hans (Contributor)
Ashbery, John (Contributor)
Auden, W. H. (Contributor)
Ayres, Philip (Contributor)
Beckett, Samuel (Contributor)
Bellow, Hilaire (Contributor)
Bishop, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Blake, William (Contributor)
Brodsky, Joseph (Contributor)
Browning, Robert (Contributor)
Bunyan, John (Contributor)
Burns, Robert (Contributor)
Byron, Lord (Contributor)
Campbell, Roy (Contributor)
Carroll, Lewis (Contributor)
Carson, Ciaran (Contributor)
Cartwright, William (Contributor)
Chaucer, Geoffrey (Contributor)
Chesterton, G. K. (Contributor)
Clare, John (Contributor)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (Contributor)
Cowper, William (Contributor)
Crane, Hart (Contributor)
Cummings, E. E. (Contributor)
Davidson, John (Contributor)
Diaper, William (Contributor)
Dickey, James (Contributor)
Dickinson, Emily (Contributor)
Donne, John (Contributor)
Dryden, John (Contributor)
Eberhart, Richard (Contributor)
Eliot, T. S. (Contributor)
Flatman, Thomas (Contributor)
Fontaine, Jean de la (Contributor)
Frost, Robert (Contributor)
Gay, John (Contributor)
Gray, Thomas (Contributor)
Gunn, Thom (Contributor)
Hardy, Thomas (Contributor)
Heaney, Seamus (Contributor)
Herbert, Zbigniew (Contributor)
Herrick, Robert (Contributor)
Holub, Miroslav (Contributor)
Homer (Contributor)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (Contributor)
Hughes, Ted (Contributor)
Kavanagh, Patrick (Contributor)
Keats, John (Contributor)
Kinnell, Galway (Contributor)
Kipling, Rudyard (Contributor)
Landor, Walter Savage (Contributor)
Larkin, Philip (Contributor)
Lawrence, D. H. (Contributor)
Lear, Edward (Contributor)
Lovelace, Richard (Contributor)
Lowell, Robert (Contributor)
MacCaig, Norman (Contributor)
MacDiarmid, Hugh (Contributor)
MacNeice, Louis (Contributor)
Marvell, Andrew (Contributor)
McGuckian, Medbh (Contributor)
Melville, Herman (Contributor)
Merrill, James (Contributor)
Milton, John (Contributor)
Montague, John (Contributor)
Moore, Marianne (Contributor)
Muir, Edwin (Contributor)
Murray, Les (Contributor)
Paulin, Tom (Contributor)
Plath, Sylvia (Contributor)
Ponge, Francis (Contributor)
Pope, Alexander (Contributor)
Raine, Craig (Contributor)
Reid, Christopher (Contributor)
Rich, Adrienne (Contributor)
Roethke, Theodore (Contributor)
Rossetti, Christina (Contributor)
Schwartz, Delmore (Contributor)
Scott, Sir Walter (Contributor)
Sedley, Charles (Contributor)
Shakespeare, William (Contributor)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (Contributor)
Sidney, Philip (Contributor)
Simic, Charles (Contributor)
Skelton, John (Contributor)
Smart, Christopher (Contributor)
Sorescu, Marin (Contributor)
Stephens, James (Contributor)
Stevens, Wallace (Contributor)
Swift, Jonathan (Contributor)
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (Contributor)
Taylor, Edward (Contributor)
Tennyson, Alfred (Contributor)
Thomas, Edward (Contributor)
Thomson, James (Contributor)
Vaughn, Henry (Contributor)
Webster, John (Contributor)
Whitman, Walt (Contributor)
Wilbur, Richard (Contributor)
Williams, C. K. (Contributor)
Williams, William Carlos (Contributor)
Wordsworth, William (Contributor)
Wright, James (Contributor)
Wyatt, Thomas (Contributor)
Yeats, W. B. (Contributor)

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Canonical title
The Faber Book of Beasts
Original publication date
1997
Original language
English

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
821.0080362 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures British Poetry English poetry {by more than one author} Modified standard subdivisions Collections of literary texts not limited by time period or kind of form Collections of literary texts displaying specific features or emphasizing specific subjects, for or by specific groups of people Poetry dealing with specific themes and subjects Natural and physical phenomena; mathematics Animals
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PR1195 .A64 .F33 — Language and Literature English English Literature Collections of English literature
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