| Other author/creator | Raskin, Ellen, illustrator. |
| Other author/creator | Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 author. |
| Other author/creator | Roethke, Theodore, 1908-1963 author. |
| Other author/creator | Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 author. |
| Other author/creator | Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972, author. |
| Other author/creator | Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 author. |
| Other author/creator | Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 author. |
| Other author/creator | Finkel, Donald, author. |
| Other author/creator | Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965 author. |
| Other author/creator | Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 author. |
| Other author/creator | Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 author. |
| Other author/creator | Winters, Yvor, 1900-1968 author. |
| Other author/creator | Weiss, Theodore Russell, 1916-2003 author. |
| Other author/creator | Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006 author. |
| Other author/creator | Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 author. |
| Other author/creator | Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974 author. |
| Other author/creator | Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 author. |
| Other author/creator | Macmillan Company, publisher. |
| Contents |
Now (more near ourselves than we) / E.E. Cummings -- The sloth / Theodore Roethke -- The snake / Emily Dickinson -- The magical mouse / Kenneth Patchen -- The naming of cats / T.S. Eliot -- Lion / William Jay Smith -- Hunting Song / Donald Finkel -- Bats / Randall Jarrell -- A jellyfish / Marianne Moore -- The horse / William Carlos Williams -- To be sung by a small boy who herds goats / Yvor Winters -- A magic carpet / Theodore Weiss -- The waltzer in the house / Stanley Kunitz -- Fireflies in the garden / Robert Frost -- Little boy blue / John Crowe Ransom -- Ploughing on Sunday / Wallace Stevens. |
| Abstract |
A collection of sophisticated animal poems by well known poets about such things as naming cats, a singing bird, and a slow-moving sloth. |
| Local note | Includes dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection #132.11. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| General note | "Printed in the United States of America"--Title page verso. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011 |
| Genre/form | Children's poetry 1968. |
| Genre/form | Dust jackets (Bindings) 1968. |
| Genre/form | Juvenile works. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Children's poetry. |
| LCCN | 68010124 |