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",...