Given that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200
million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there is a
rich body of verse on the creeping, scuttling, flitting, stinging
things with which we share our planet. Many cultures have
centuries-old traditions of insect poetry. In China,where
noblewomen of the Tang dynasty kept crickets in gold
cages-countless songs were written in praise of these 'insect
musicians'. The haiku masters of Japan were similarly inspired,
though spread their net wider to include less prepossessing bugs
such as houseflies, fleas and mosquitoes. In the West, poems about
insects date back to the ancient Greeks, and insects feature
frequently in European literature from the 16th century onwards.
The poets collected here range from Donne, Marvell, Keats and
Wordsworth; Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Christina
Rossetti, to Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Oliver, Ted Hughes, Paul
Muldoon and Alice Oswald. In translation there is verse by -
amongst others - Meleager and Tu Fu, Ivan Turgenev, Victor Hugo,
Paul Valery, Pablo Neruda, Antonio Machado and Xi Chuan. Bees,
butterflies and beetles, cockroaches and caterpillars, fireflies
and dragonflies, ladybirds and glowworms--the miniature creatures
that adorn these pages are as varied as the poetic talents that
celebrate them.
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