A. L. Rowse

This is a unique celebration of that most beautiful and self-possessed of creatures--the cat. More than 50 poems are included, reflecting every feline mood: the comic, the aristocratic, the lazy, the cunning, the fierce, the inscrutable. Lovers of cats and lovers of poetry will be delighted by the wide-ranging nature of the collection by poets such as T.S. Elliot, Ted Hughes, W.B. Yeats, William Wordsworth, Edward Lear and many others. One of the most attractive features of the book is the choice of pictures. A stunning selection of drawings and paintings by such artists and illustrators as Renoir, Manet, Picasso, Hogarth, Cruikshank and Lear add to the charm of the verse, making this a book to be treasured by cat lovers everywhere.

A.L. Rowse once again provides some fascinating insights into the lives, characters and intellects of fourteen of his well-known contemporaries all of whom he knew personally. Includes glimpses of Bertrand Russell, J.M. Keynes, Ernest Beving, C.R. Attlee, Lionel Curtis, John Buchan, Rebecca West, H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Bowen, Cyril Connolly, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis and John Betjeman.