Poems About Birds
“Poems About Birds” by H. J. Massingham is a beautifully curated anthology published by Macmillan Collector’s Library on April 25, 2023. This edition, featuring 224 pages, is designed for book lovers and is bound in real cloth with high-quality paper, ribbon markers, and gilt edges. The collection spans from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, showcasing the enchanting lives of birds as depicted by classic poets.
Readers will find a selection of notable works, including pieces by John Keats, Sylvia Lynd, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and William Wordsworth, each celebrating the beauty and grace of various bird species. This annotated edition highlights the timeless connection between poetry and nature, particularly focusing on the themes of birds and their significance in literature. The book serves as a tribute to the inspiration that birds have provided to writers across generations.
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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.
Countless writers have been inspired by the beauty of birds – their colours, their easy flight, their lightness and softness, and the grace and whimsicality of their ways. Our literature, especially our poetry, is full of them.
Spanning from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, Poems About Birds captures the enticing lives of birds through the eyes of classic poets. From John Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ to Sylvia Lynd’s ‘The Return of the Goldfinches’, and from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Eagle’ to William Wordsworth’s ‘To The Skylark’, countless varieties of bird are celebrated here. This annotated edition of Poems About Birds selects the very best from H. J. Massingham’s original collection which was first published in 1922.
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