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Read by Laurel Lefkow, Nigel Planer & Stephen Hogan (Unabridged: 1hr 8mins)
Featuring poems by WB Yeats, John Keats, HP Lovecraft, Charles Baudelaire, William Wordsworth & others.
The cat. Independent when it wants and making us dependent on its whims when it deems. Cats are first thought of as being domesticated in the Near East in about 7500 BC. A few thousand years later in Ancient Egypt they are worshipped as gods. From a domestic cat’s point of view this is pretty much the life they want and that some cats lead right now.
Their larger cousins whether in forest, savannah, mountains or desert were fated for their speed, strength, beauty, feline powers and prowess. They now live in a finely balanced world between freedom and declining numbers as their habitats are destroyed or taken from them.
Across the centuries poets have written verse that captures all manner of thoughts on our complex relationship with all cats, though mainly the humble moggy, on whose whims we slave over, eager for a look of recognition, the nod of thanks or the purr of gratitude.
In this compilation -
| 1 - The Poetry of Cats - An Introduction |
| 2 - The Cat and the Moon by William Butler Yeats |
| 3 - The Cat by Charles Baudelaire |
| 4 - The Lions by Joseph Mary Plunkett |
| 5 - The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear |
| 6 - An Appeal to Cats in the Business of Love by Thomas Flatman |
| 7 - To My Cat by Rosamund Marriott Watson |
| 8 - Verses on a Cat by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 9 - Milk For the Cat by Harold Munro |
| 10 - The Cats Have Come To Tea by Kate Greenaway |
| 11 - St Jerome's Cat by Anonymous |
| 12 - The Lazy Pussy by Palmer Cox |
| 13 - Sad Memories by Charles Calverly |
| 14 - Mrs Reynold's Cat by John Keats |
| 15 - Mujer by William Carlos Williams |
| 16 - Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 17 - The Cats Will Know by Cesare Pavese |
| 18 - A Cat by Edward Thomas |
| 19 - The Cat of the House by Ford Madox Ford |
| 20 - To Winky by Amy Lowell |
| 21 - The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke |
| 22 - Jaguar by Lola Ridge |
| 23 - Julbilate Agno by Christopher Smart |
| 24 - Little Tiger by H P Lovecraft |
| 25 - The Tiger by William Blake |
| 26 - Sonnet XIX - Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws by William Shakespeare |
| 27 - The Lion Who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox by Rumi |
| 28 - The Eagle, The Sow and the Cat by Anne Kingsmill Finch |
| 29 - The Vain Cat by Ambrose Bierce |
| 30 - To A Cat by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
| 31 - The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat by Eugene Field |
| 32 - How the Feud Started by Arthur Guiterman |
| 33 - The Old Cat and the Young Mouse by Jean De La Fontaine |
| 34 - The Cat and the Old Rat by Jean de la Fontaine |
| 35 - The Rat-Catcher and Cats by John Gay |
| 36 - Two Little Kittens by Anonymous |
| 37 - Familiarity Dangerous by William Cowper |
| 38 - The Kitten and the Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth |
| 39 - The First Cat by Arthur Guiterman |
| 40 - Had Tiberius Been a Cat by Matthew Arnold |
| 41 - An Oxford Don Curses his Cat by Thomas Master |
| 42 - Pangur Ban - The Scholar and His Cat by Anonymous |
| 43 - Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat - Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes by Thomas Gray |
| 44 - On the Death of a Cat by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| 45 - Epitaph on a Pet Cat by Joachim Du Bellay |
| 46 - Last Words To A Dumb Friend by Thomas Hardy |
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