[Vwoolf] Cats and Mary Ellen

[Neverow, Vara S.]

To shift to something with a bit more joy about cats, I am sharing this website--https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lithub.com/15-great-cat-poems-not-written-by-cats/--which__;!!KGKeukY!mJvOsgo0iEif06KWXT2CANAmR4JlLyne84PBn4koSlEI18n320iCmu4tnNXqYaFjbUM$  features a lovely illustration with at least 30 cats and kittens and also includes an excerpt from Christopher Smart on the topic of "[For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffrey]" and Rebecca Hazelton's "Love Poem for What It Is."

Trigger warning: some of the poems are almost as grisly as the instances of cat abuse mentioned in previous emails, but some are very inspiring and respectful in the depiction of felines.

Vara

Vara Neverow
Department of English
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu

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We have become more civilized: we no longer take pleasure in tying cats to spits and slowly roasting them over fires, as French aristocrats used to do for fun in eighteenth-century France, wrote Leonard Woolf.  Where?  Probably not in his autobiography.  Probably in “After the Deluge” (2 vols) or “Principia Ethica” (i.e. vol. 3 of the former).

Stuart
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