Poetry and animals : blurring the boundaries with the human /

Oerlemans, Onno, 1961-

Poetry and animals : blurring the boundaries with the human / Onno Oerlemans. - New York : Columbia University, (c)2018. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies 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.



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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.


Electronic Books.

PN1083 / .P648 2018