The Poets' Birds, The Poets' Beasts, and The Poets and Nature: Reptiles, Fishes, and Insects [3 Volume Set]
London: Chatto and Windus, 1883-1893. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes, this set of anthologies forms a veritable ark of poetry, mythology, and folklore of the animal world, in particular consulting the great English poets, from Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton to the Romantics—Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson—and between, all on..... More