On Wings of Song : Poems about Birds (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

From Emily Dickinson's reflections on the jay to Seamus Heaney's celebration of the turkey, a collection of avian poems pays tribute to the amazing world of birds in works by Gertrude Stein, Chaucer, Tennyson, Ted Hughes, Amy Clampitt, John Updike, Po ChuI, W. B. Yeats, Virgil, Edward Lear, Sylvia Plath, and other poets from around the world. 12,500 first printing.