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Although They Are As Commonplace As Our Backyards, Birds Remain Wild, Unpossessed By Humans, Living Beside Us, But Alone, As Matthew Arnold Observes And As Leonard Lutwack Explores In This Study Of The Depiction Of Birds In Literature. The Very Attributes That Make Birds So Familiar - Their Flight And Song - Retain An Air Of Mystery That Sets Them Apart From Other Animals. They Appear To Exist Effortlessly In A State Of Mixed Animal And Spiritual Being That Humans Long To Attain. This Simultaneous Familiarity And Transcendence Gives Birds A Wide Range Of Meaning In The Works That Luwack Describes. His Examples - Both Expected And Surprising - Come In Some Measure From Greco-roman Writers But Primarily From The Poetry And Prose Of American And British Writers Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries. Lutwack Divides His Material Into Five Sections: Birds In Poetry And As Metaphor, Including The Classical Nightingale And The Swan And The Birds Of Such Poets As Dickinson, Whitman, And Stevens; Birds And The Supernatural, Including Ancient Beliefs In Birds As Images And Disguised Gods As Well As Some Interesting Modern Revivals Of Bird-gods - The Quetzal In Lawrence, The Crow In Ted H

Author

Lutwack, Leonard, 1917-

Publisher

Gainesville: University Press of Florida

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813019963

Subjects

Travel, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism