The Sophisticated Cat

Preface / Joyce Carol Oates The Cat: A Preface / Daniel Halpern 1. Cat Stories by the Masters Who Was to Blame? / Anton Chekhov The Story of Webster / P.G. Wodehouse The Cat's Paradise / Emile Zola The Afflictions of an English Cat / Honore de Balzac Tobermory / Saki Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe 2. Cat Poetry from the Canon My Cat Jeoffry / Christopher Smart Ode: On the Death of a Favorite Cat ... / Thomas Gray To a Cat / John Keats Verses on a Cat / Percy Bysshe Shelley She Sights a Bird / Emily Dickinson To a Cat / Algernon Charles Swinburne A Fable of the Widow and Her Cat / Jonathan Swift On the Death of a Cat ... / Christina Rossetti To Winky / Amy Lowell The Kitten and Falling Leaves / William Wordsworth The Spinster's Sweet-Arts / Alfred, Lord Tennyson [The Churlyshe Cat] / John Skelton 3. More Stories About Cats from the Masters Cat in the Rain / Ernest Hemingway Dick Baker's Cat / Mark Twain Lillian / Damon Runyon from La Chatte: Saha / Colette The White and Black Dynasties / Theophile Gautier 4. Cat Poetry from the Twentieth Century The Cat and the Moon / W.B. Yeats Last Words to a Dumb Friend / Thomas Hardy Chaplinesque / Hart Crane A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts / Wallac