The Poetry of Birds

This illustrated anthology of 65 poems is a tribute to the ways in which birds bring us joy and solace. Includes work by Blake, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Keats and Shelley; Yeats, Laurie Lee and Ted Hughes; and American poets including Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and Theodore Roethke. Each poem is illustrated with an artwork by J J Audubon, making this a beautiful book to cherish for years to come.