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The Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) apologetics speaking in schools and atThe Art of Angling offers a bountiful catch of poems from around the world and through the ages on every aspect of the beloved sport. Fishing has inspired a wealth of poetry Tang Dynasty meditations; Japanese haiku; medieval rhymes; classic verses by Homer and Shakespeare; poems by Donne, Goethe, Tennyson, and Yeats. Modern masterpieces abound as well, by the likes of Federico Garca Lorca, Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, Raymond Carver,