INDEX
Abbey, Edward, 84–85
Abram, David, 116
“Address to the Beasts” (Auden), 59–60
“Advice to a Prophet” (Wilbur):
destruction of planet in, 76; kinship
in, 77
Aesopic tradition: in Medieval literature,
29; “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” and, 33;
“The Taill of the Wolf and the Lamb”
and, 36
Agamben, Giorgio, 25, 54
Allegory, animal as, 190; animal sympathy
and, 47, 50–51; anthropomorphism and,
27–28, 51; evolution of, 24; Fletcher on,
30; hierarchy in, 31; Hughes and, 14–15;
human-animal distinction and, 30, 31;
interpretation and, 53; as mode of
representation, 30–31; in “Ode on the
Death of a Favorite Cat,” 21, 48–49;
projecting meaning and, 27; in
Renaissance sonnets, 43–45; in
romantic period, 47–48; in “Song of
Myself,” 61; species and, 29–30; symbol
and, 31; in “To a Skylark,” 21, 129. See
also Elizabeth Costello (fictional
character); Fables, animal; “Nun’s
Priest’s Tale, The” (Chaucer); “Taill of
the Wolf and the Lamb, The”
(Henryson)
“Amanda Dreams She Has Died and Gone
to the Elysian Fields” (Kumin), 146–47
Ammons, A. R.: “Corsen’s Inlet” by, 73;
“Four Motions for the Pea Vines” by,
73–74; “Turning” by, 167–68
“Animal, The” (Creeley), 181–83
“Animal Acts” (Simic), 186–87
Animal and environmental rights and
causes, 78, 203n49; anticruelty laws and,
47; comparing, 86, 120; factory farm
animal and, 82; in “For a Coming
Extinction,” 77; individual animal
poetry and, 120–21, 123; in poetry, 73;
Regan as animal rights activist, 121;
romantic period and, 200n28; species
poem and, 117; sustainable poetry and, 8
Animal poetry: animal welfare and, 4; ape
in, 189–91; Atkins on literal, 1–2, 4; bear
in, 62, 173–76; caribou in, 141–42; cats
in, 21, 48–51, 125, 148–49, 200n29; cows
in, 82, 165–66; deer and, 43–45, 137–38;
dog and, 30, 153; elephants in, 13,
160–62, 212n10; examples of poets and,