From Shakespeare to Blake and from Rossetti to Wordsworth, cats have been celebrated in poetry for as long as they have been warming laps. Cats are mysterious, adorable, finicky, and cherished; and they have been beloved muses for some of our most renowned poets, writers, and artists. With whimsical cartoons by Yasmine Surovec, this inspired collection presents treasured poems and nursery rhymes by Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, John Keats, Percy Shelley, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and others.