[Vwoolf] Cats and Mary Ellen

[Ellen Moody]

I love Cats Sleep Anywhere by Eleanor Farjeon:

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cats-sleep-anywhere/__;!!KGKeukY!h5OPDIq9jM9ICdpAlAcqd7MLcc3xqN9kDZJKNDe0kK4AzRtWsQ3171JDY6xR7E_dIN8$ 

and for a good discourse with interesting pictures, see Desmond Morris's
Cats in Art.

Ellen



On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 4:25 PM Neverow, Vara S. via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> 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/__;!!KGKeukY!h5OPDIq9jM9ICdpAlAcqd7MLcc3xqN9kDZJKNDe0kK4AzRtWsQ3171JDY6xRusCjy0E$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lithub.com/15-great-cat-poems-not-written-by-cats/__;!!KGKeukY!mJvOsgo0iEif06KWXT2CANAmR4JlLyne84PBn4koSlEI18n320iCmu4tnNXqNzyH8_k$>--which 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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> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Stuart N.
> Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 9, 2021 3:06 PM
> *To:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] Cats and Mary Ellen
>
> 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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