Samuel Carr Bücher

Poems, stories, nursery rhymes, fables, fairy tales, myths, and extracts from long works introduce some of the best literature ever written for children.

The verse which is characteristic of English poetry is country verse. The painting that is most representative of the English pictorial genius is landscape painting. In this collection, the poetry and the painting of the countryside are combined in such a way that each illuminates the other.

This is a unique celebration of that most beautiful and self-possessed of animals, the cat. More than 50 poems are included, reflecting every feline mood: the comic, the aristocratic, the lazy, the fierce, the inscrutable. Lovers of cats and lovers of poetry will be delighted by the wide range of the collection, which contains poems by T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, W.B. Yeates, William Wordsworth, Stevie Smith, John Keats, Edward Lear, A.L. Rowse, Christopher Smart, and many besides.One of the most attractive features of the book is the choice of pictures. A stunning selection of drawings and paintings by such artists and illustrators as Renoir, Manet, Picasso, Hogarth, Cruikshank, Caldicott and Lear adds immeasurably to the charm of the verse. This is a book to be treasured by cat-lovers everywhere.