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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats. Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his ...
Many of the book's poems imagine the real and symbolic lives of animals, including a fox, a jaguar, and the eponymous hawk. [1] Other poems focus on erotic relationships, and on stories of the First World War, Hughes's father being a survivor of Gallipoli. The book, dedicated to Hughes' first wife Sylvia Plath, is a
Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow is a literary work by poet Ted Hughes, first published in 1970 by Faber & Faber, and one of Hughes' most important works. Writing for the Ted Hughes Society Journal in 2012, Neil Roberts , Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield , said:
In 1966, he wrote poems to accompany Leonard Baskin's illustrations of crows, which became the epic narrative The Life and Songs of the Crow, one of the works for which Hughes is best known. [5] In 1967, while living with Wevill, Hughes produced two sculptures of a jaguar, one of which he gave to his brother and one to his sister.
From then on, he updated this work as Collected Poems. Exceptions are Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), a collection of light verse; Poems Written in Early Youth, posthumously published in 1967 and consisting mainly of poems published between 1907 and 1910 in The Harvard Advocate, and Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909–1917 ...
In her book Crow Cosmopolotics, Dr Julie Morley says that since crows are a synanthropic species - defined by the tendency to live close to humans and adapt to human ways of life - they have ...
Pages in category "Poems about cats" ... Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat; P. Pangur Bán; S. The Ship's Cat; W. Won Ton: A Cat Tale ...
The cover of T. S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations, published in 1917, a collection of twelve poems including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" referenced in the title A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook .