Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679435824 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 87 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Color illustrations.. In the vein of his bestselling French for Cats, Henry Beard has assembled a brilliant anthology of treasured works by feline poets. Includes "Do Not Go Gentle to That Damned Vet" by Dylan Thomas's cat, "The Human" by Edgar Allan Poe's cat and other works. Poetry for Cats will prove as thrilling as a stiff shot of catnip
"A true classic" according to M. Landau. This is one of the funniest things I've read in years. Beard, as usual, is masterful in his parody. In this case he takes on great poetry ranging from "Beowulf" to "Xanadu" to "Song of Myself" and and "Howl", not to mention every age and genre in between.Not only is the parody mar. Five Stars a must-read for anyone who loves cats and great classic literatureHenry Beard is a genius!. "Made me howl!!" according to Joseph Horton. It took reading Douglas Hofsteder's stuff to appreciate how hard it is to translate poetry, especially silly poetry, into another language. He illustrated it with various translations of The Jabberwocky. The problem is getting just the right "look and feel" of the original.These p
Now he shows off his extraordinary skills as a parodist. Beard has already demonstrated his command of French in previous books, French for Cats and Advanced French for Exceptional Cats. . These poems are fun even if you don't know the original sources; if you do, they are sublime. Even if you don't like cats--or poetry--you'll be tickled by the contents of Henry Beard's Poetry for Cats. Consider, for example, "Grendel's Dog," from "Beocat": Then boasted Beocat, noble battle-kitten, Bane of barrow-bunnies, bold seeker of nest-booty: I would lay the whelpling low with lethal claw-blows; Fur would fly and the foe would taste death-food Or, from a later period, William Blake's cat's poem, "The Mongrel": Mongrel! Mongrel! Barking blight, Bane upon my yard at night; What infernal hand or eye, Could frame thy vile anatomy? Beard is obviously at home with poetry of many genres, from ancient odes to mo