 | Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human Subjects: Animals in literature; Exempla in literature; Anthropomorphism in literature; Human-animal relationships in literature; Animal welfare in literature; Animals -- Symbolic aspects; Poetry Modern -- History and criticism; Poetry Medieval -- History and cri; Onno Oerlemans explores a broad range of English-language poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. Through careful readings of dozens of poems, Oerlemans demonstrates how poetry can sensitize us to the moral standing of animals and give us new ways to think through the problems of the human-animal divide. Oerlemans Onno : Onno Oerlemans is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Hamilton College. He is the author of Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature (Toronto, 2002).Onno Oerlemans is professor of literature at Hamilton College. He is the author of Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature (2002). |
