Poems About Trees (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) Tree Book Alan Dugan

Alan Dugan

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Poems About Trees (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) Tree Book Alan DuganA unique anthology of poems from around the world and through the ages that celebrate trees. For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them and poets have long chronicled the relationship. Poets from Homer and Virgil to Wordsworth, Whitman, and Thoreau, from Su Tung P'o and Basho to Czeslaw Milosz and W. S. Merwin have celebrated sacred groves, wild woodlands, and bountiful orchards,