The Dog in British Poetry

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R. Maynard Leonard
Chronicle Books, Feb 17, 2005 - Pets - 380 pages
Originally published in 1893, this utterly charming book collects more than 200 poems from British literature celebrating our faithful canine companions as they hunt, romp, chew, and wait patiently for their master's voice. The first ever collection of poetry on dogs (which its editor proudly dedicated "to the cynics"), The Dog in British Poetry is a heartfelt labor of love. Including notable work by great and lesser-known British poets through the end of the 19th century (Byron, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Browning, Tennyson, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Blake, Butler, Wordsworth), this authoritative anthology also includes an appendix of scholarly notes on the poems, and delightful touches such as indexes of the poems by dog breed and the dog's name (Nina, Oscar, Snowball, Trouncer, Wag). Combining just the right amount of tweedy charm and playful celebration, and sure to please dog-lovers, Anglophiles, and readers of every breed, The Dog in British Poetry, in print again anew, gives the dog his day, his due.

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Contents

WILLIAM STEWART b 1481
7
ALEXANDER POPE 16881744
16
OLIVER GOLDSMITH 17281774
17
WILLIAM COWPER 17311800
18
ALEXANDER GEDDES 17371802
20
GEORGE CRABBE 17541832
21
ROBERT BURNS 17591796
23
SAMUEL ROGERS 17631855
25
GEORGE GORDON LORD BYRON
187
GEORGE MEREDITH b 1828
193
QUESTIONS
195
LORD ORRERYS HECTOR
197
THE GREYHOUND SNOWBALL
198
DOG LATIN
199
Miscellaneous Poems
201
GEOFFREY CHAUCER 13281400
203

BETH GELERT
26
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 17701850
30
FIDELITY
31
ROBERT SOUTHEY 17741843
39
CAROLINE FRY WILSON 17871846
47
ODYSSEUS AND ARGUS
56
MARY HOWITT 18041888
71
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 18091892
73
WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER b 1823
79
GEORGE R SIMS b 1847
88
Sporting Poems
105
JULIANA BERNERS b 1388
108
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 15641616
115
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680
122
JOHN DRYDEN 16311700
123
THOMAS TICKELL 16861740
129
WILLIAM SOMERVILE 16921742
136
EDWARD LOVIBOND d 1775
151
SIR WALTER SCOTT 17711832
157
Elegiac Poems
163
THOMAS LORD ERSKINE 17501823
170
WILLIAM WYNDHAM LORD GRENVILLE
171
CHARLES LAMB 17751834
178
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM 17881845
184
GEORGE TURBERVILLE 1530?1594?
208
JOHN MOLLE 15501637
209
SIR JOHN HARINGTON 1561 ?1612
211
ON STRIKING HIS WIFES DOG
212
THE MASTIFFWORRYING FLY
213
MICHAEL DRAYTON 1563?1631 PAGE
214
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680
222
MATTHEW PRIOR 16641721 PAGE
225
JOHN GAY 16881732
231
JAMES HOGG 17701835
236
SIR WALTER SCOTT 17711832
250
JOHN CLARE 17931864
257
THOMAS HOOD 17981845 PAGE
259
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES b 1809
272
GERALD MASSEY b 1828
278
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD b 1832 PAGE
279
SIR WALTER SCOTT 17711832
303
INDEXES
333
7
336
31
337
THE WANDERERS DOG 34
340
POOR YARROW 25
345
36
349
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R. Maynard Leonard was a prolific anthologist and scholar (publishing a number of titles with Oxford) who persevered in the face of literary ridicule to bring this wonderful book to "the great dog-loving public."

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