Poetry and animals : blurring the boundaries with the human /
Onno Oerlemans.
- xii, 238 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
Introduction -- The animal in allegory: from Chaucer to Gray -- Poems of the animal -- Poetry as field guide: the species poem -- The individual animal in poetry -- Of hybridity and the hybrid -- Coda.
9780231159548 (cloth : alk. paper)
2017049986
Animals in literature. Exempla in literature. Anthropomorphism in literature. Human-animal relationships in literature. Animal welfare in literature. Animals--Symbolic aspects. Poetry, Modern--History and criticism. Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism.