Onno Oerlemans’s Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human offers a wide-ranging exploration of the different ways animals figure in poetry. Grounded in close readings of selected poems, the book considers in turn poetry that treats animals as allegorical figures, symbols of nature, representatives of a species, and individual beings. Oerlemans argues that reading poetry about animals models how to cultivate careful attention to the natural world. He also argues that poetry can complicate the divide between humans and other animals. The book is recommended for scholars embarking on animal studies projects and for use in the classroom.
Articles by Anne Llewellyn Morgan
Anne Llewellyn Morgan is an Instructor in the Department of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Virginia. She works on the relationship between poetry and natural philosophy in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance.