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Bird songs in literature : bird songs and the poems they have inspired

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  • Contributor: Krutch, Joseph Wood; Kellogg, Peter Paul
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
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    2008
    Summary:

    The best field recordings of songs and calls of fifty birds of England and North America are here paired with such classic poems as "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe as well as poems by Dickinson, Shelley, Longfellow, Tennyson, and more.

    Contents:
    • The raven / by Edgar Allan Poe
    • The oriole's secret / by Emily Dickinson
    • An essay on man / by Alexander Pope
    • Roadless area / by Paul Brooks
    • To a skylark / by Percy Bysshe Shelley
    • The jackdaw / by William Cowper
    • The birds of Killingworth / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    • The princess / by Alfred Lord Tennyson
    • The oven bird / by Robert Frost
    • Thoreau's flute / by Louisa May Alcott
    • The wasteland / by T.S. Eliot
    • The song of songs / from the Old Testament.
    Genre:
    Poetry
    Subject(s): American Poetry | Birdsongs | English poetry
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781433233852, 1433233851, 9781433233876, 1433233878