Trees: A Browser's Anthology

An anthology of short pieces of poetry and prose on trees, from ancient times to the present. It is suitable for the bedside, the coffee table, or wherever one may pick it up and open it at any point. The object is no more and no less than diversion and pleasure. Effectively placed, the reproductions of engravings, woodcuts, drawings, paintings, photographs provide a visual feast in black and white. The colorful jacket illustration is reproduced from the painting Willows and Sumac by Wilfred Gelber. The selections range widely across times and cultures. The bible is represented, as is Homer. You will find Yeats and Shakespeare, Pope, Defoe, King Charles (How he Hid in an Oak), Pepys, Robert Burns, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley, Hawthorne, Lewis Carroll (the Cheshire Cat), Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jane Austen, Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Francis Parkman, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Robert Lowell, and many others, both well known and not so well known. "Anonymous" is not overlooked This book would be ideal as a gift.