A sublime collection of beautiful poems written about birds to read again and again as a source of comfort and joy. Poets and artists have always looked to birds for inspiration. In this collection Audubon’s iconic birds illuminate; as well as illustrate; the poems. Since the poets and the painters represented are among the greatest who have ever lived; their joint celebration of a common theme has resulted in an enchanting book to cherish for years to come. Amongst the poets whose work is included are Rossetti; Chaucer; Blake; Shakespeare; and Milton; Cowper; Wordsworth; Baudelaire; Tennyson; Keats; and Shelley; twentieth-century writers; among them Hardy; Yeats; de la Mare; Laurie Lee; and Ted Hughes; and such American poets as Thoreau; Whitman; William Cullen Bryant; Emily Dickinson; Robert Frost; and Theodore Roethke.