This vintage book contains James Edmund Harting s 1841 work; The Birds under Domestication - Domesticated Birds in Literature and Poetry . Within it, Harting explores the link between beautiful songbirds and their use in literature, covering the mediaeval period through to Shakespeare and the modern era. Contents include: Cock-Crow, The Cock, Cock-A-Hoop, Cock and Pye, Cock-Fighting, Ancestry of Domestic Cock, The Peacock, The Turkey, Its Introduction into England, Turkey-Fowl and Guinea-Fowl, Its Early Domestication, etcetera. This book will be of utility to students of English literature, and would make for a great addition to any bookshelf. Many antiquarian texts such as this - particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before - are increasingly hard to come by and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author." | The Birds Under Domestication - Domesticated Birds in Literature and Poetry by James Edmund 1841 Harting, Paperback | Indigo Chapters