Duncan (Hrsg.) Wu

Dog-eared

Poems About Humanity's Best Friend

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From Homer to Wordsworth to Gwendolyn Brooks, learn about history's greatest writers and the furry best friends that inspired them.Dogs are at once among the most ordinary of animals and the most beloved by mankind. But what we may not realize is that for as long as we have loved dogs, our poets have been seriously engaged with them as well.In this collection, English professor Duncan Wu digs into the wealth of poetry about our furry friends to show how varied and intimate our relationships with them have been over the centuries. Homer recounts how Odysseus's loyal dog recognizes his master even after his long absence. Thomas Hardy wrote poem… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5416-7291-8
EAN: 9781541672918
Produktnummer: 33500274
Verlag: Basic Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'650 KB

Über den Autor

Duncan Wu is Raymond A. Wagner professor of literary studies at Georgetown University and a former fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford. He has written on Romantic writers from William Wordsworth to William Hazlitt, as well as on contemporary British theater. He and his dog Topsy live in McLean, Virginia.