Birds : an anthology / compiled by Jaqueline Mitchell ; woodcuts by Eric Fitch Daglish.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitchell, Jaqueline, compiler.

Daglish, Eric Fitch, 1892-1966, wood engraver.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birds--Literary collections.

Birds.

Birds in literature.

Birds--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

263 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2020.

Summary:

Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's 'full-hearted evensong of joy illimited', Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts 'dash round in circles' and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean's edge, scurrying 'across the beach like little ghosts'. From early times, we have been entranced by the bird life around us. This anthology brings together poetry and prose in celebration of birds, records their behaviour, flight, song and migration, the changes across the seasons and in different habitats - in woodland and pasture, on river, shoreline and at sea - and our own interaction with them. From India to America, from China to Rwanda, writers marvel at birds - the building of a long-tailed tit's nest, the soaring eagle, the extraordinary feats of migration and the pleasures to be found in our own gardens. Including extracts by Geoffrey Chaucer, Dorothy Wordsworth, Richard Jefferies, Charles Darwin, James Joyce, John Keats, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Anton Chekhov, Kathleen Jamie, Jonathan Franzen and Barbara Kingsolver among many others, this rich anthology will be welcomed by bird-lovers, country ramblers and anyone who has taken comfort or joy in a bird in flight.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: What is a bird? Definitions over time

A Birding Year: Spring / Edward Thomas

Inland: Field, Hedgerow, Pasture, Woodland / H.C.I. Gillian Clarke

Bird Song & Songsters / Edouard Bamporiki

A Birding Year: Summer / Melissa Harrison

Birds In Flight / Kathleen Jamie

Hawks eagles / Helen Macdonald

A Birding Year: Autumn / Edward Piatt

Birds & Us / Helen Macdonald

Outland: River, Coast, Sea, Shore / Kathleen Jamie

A Birding Year: Winter / Siofra McSherry.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781851245291

1851245294

OCLC:

1121602279

Publisher Number:

99985841794