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I'm working on a project and am trying to come up with examples especially poetical writing on hunting. Hemingway, Gasset, there's a poem by Wyatt ("Whosolist to hunt..."), Dickey's the "Heaven of Animals" (he's the guy who wrote "Deliverance"), some comments by Hume (hunting and philosophy, says Hume, are parallel activities), an old Roman poem by Binor (the guy throws an octopus at a rabbit)....

Who is a poetical writer about hunting?

Ella

The word is "poetic", not poetical.

Yeah, that would be a good place to start...

Trust me. And/or look it up.

Ella

I 'thot' you'd get alotta help here, on the 'Fire'.

We got "Friends In Low Places".

The fellows who post here whose antics
revolve around twisted semantics,
have neither the time
nor are so inclined,
to mess with good meter and rhyme.

I looked it up! I stand corrected. It doesn't seem to have a lot ( as I thought) to do with poetry.

Merriam Webster:being beyond or above the truth of history or nature.



In that vein, I would recommend Jose Ortega y Gassett

Try Aldo Leopold or Guy De la Valdene. Trueblood was capable at times.

This gets my vote. Thomas McGuane, his short story "The Heart of the Matter," starts on page 15 (first three paragraphs are just an intro.):

http://books.google.com/books?id=K4...%20short%20stories%20hunting&f=false

Stephen Bodio, Jim Corbett, Isak Dinesen, William Faulkner, Charles Fergus, George Bird Evans, Guy de la Valdene, Caroline Gordon, John Graves, Jim Harrison, William Humphrey, Robert F. Jones, Tom McGuane, Thomas McIntyre, John Mitchell, Datus Proper, Robert Ruark, Paul Shepard and John Vaillant all have written stuff that would qualify.

Dates Proper? I always thought of him as a fly-fishing writer, must have missed his hunting stuff.

How about Sparse Grey Hackle, "The Lotus Eaters?"

Good stuff.

TRUE, but that ain't bad!!

Alfred Miller's (Sparse Grey Hackle) daughter is a friend of mine. She's in her 90's now. Her son is one of my best friends. They live close by me. He has Sparse's shotgun (Parker) and a couple of his and Lady Beaverkill's split cane rods, but he doesn't shoot or fish. I jokingly called dibs on the stuff. He laughed... He also has the "Fishless Days, Angling Nights" manuscript. Kind of neat to read it in that form, editing notes and all.

Wow, those stories are classics, that's something.

Gene Hill

Jackpot! I'm grateful. I know some of these names�Gasset, Leopold, Barsness; I once had supper with Harrison--but lots of these are new to me. I�m making a list for interlibrary loan. Who else would you suggest I look at? I need less technical/practical stuff�literary art or philosophy about hunting. Big Stick, Kawi, that Steve Redgewell guy can be pretty funny�who else?

(Anyone read Bob DeMott? He�s got lots of stuff on birddogs and edited a collection the subject. Superb writer.)

Ella

No you were right the first time, poobah. It's not PC today to label any word as improper, so the online dictionaries don't go there. Try looking up "ain't."

smokepole,

If you hunt upland birds at all, you might enjoy Datus Proper's book PHEASANTS OF THE MIND.

Poetic writing on hunting? Try one of the originals; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha.

Stick