Poems About Horses

Poems About Horses
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Everyman
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 July 2009
Pages
256
ISBN
9781841597843

Poems About Horses

Many kinds of equine characters grace these pages, from magnificent war horses to cowboys’ trusty steeds, from broken-down nags to playful colts, from wild horses to dream horses. We encounter the famous Trojan horse in Virgil’s Aeneid , only to see it from a quite different perspective in Matthea Harvey’s whimsical Inside the Good Idea . Longfellow shows us Paul Revere defying an empire from the back of a horse, while Shakespeare’s Richard III vainly offers his kingdom for one. Robert Burns’ ‘Auld Farmer’ dotes affectionately on his ageing mare, while Paul Muldoon’s ‘Glaucus’ is devoured by his fierce young fillies. Robert Frost’s little horse stopping by the woods is gently puzzled by human behaviour, while Ted Hughes is dazzled by a stunning vision of horses at dawn, ‘grey silent fragments/Of a grey silent world’. Mythical and metaphorical horses cavort alongside vividly real ones in these poems, whether they be humble servants, noble companions, beloved friends or emblems of the wild beauty of the world beyond our grasp.

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