--- title: "1 British Poetry Quotes By Kenn Kaufman" description: "1 British Poetry quotes by Kenn Kaufman. Plus more from Kenn Kaufman and more British Poetry sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ee/kenn-kaufman-55077_books_haunting-the-library-as-a-kid-reading-po_616300.jpg" --- > [“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how often birds were mentioned in British poetry. Songsters like nightingales and Sky Larks appeared in literally dozens of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenn-kaufman/haunting-the-library-as-a-kid-reading-poetry-books-when-i-was-not/) [Kenn Kaufman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenn-kaufman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ee/kenn-kaufman-55077_books_haunting-the-library-as-a-kid-reading-po_616300.jpg) ## More by Kenn Kaufman > [“This is the West. We expect things to be tough out here.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenn-kaufman/this-is-the-west-we-expect-things-to-be-tough-out-here/) [Kenn Kaufman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenn-kaufman/) > [“As I walked in the front door, with the glare of early morning sun still in my eyes, I had the illusion that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenn-kaufman/as-i-walked-in-the-front-door-with-the-glare-of-early-morning-sun/) [Kenn Kaufman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenn-kaufman/) > [“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how often birds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenn-kaufman/haunting-the-library-as-a-kid-reading-poetry-books-when-i-was-not/) [Kenn Kaufman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenn-kaufman/) > [“But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenn-kaufman/but-in-the-early-1970s-we-were-not-birdwatching-we-were-birding-and/) [Kenn Kaufman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenn-kaufman/) > [“ Dreams and coffee and sunrises make up the rhythms of the road. Music is a part of it, too: the popular music on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenn-kaufman/dreams-and-coffee-and-sunrises-make-up-the-rhythms-of-the-road-music/) [Kenn Kaufman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenn-kaufman/) > [“Where would the would-be “purists” draw the line between native and alien elements? This whole planet was altered by the hand of man. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenn-kaufman/where-would-the-would-be-purists-draw-the-line-between-native-and/) [Kenn Kaufman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenn-kaufman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/british-poetry/kenn-kaufman/#itemlist", "name": "1 British Poetry Quotes By Kenn Kaufman", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how often birds were mentioned in British poetry. Songsters like nightingales and Sky Larks appeared in literally dozens of works, going back beyond Shakespeare, back beyond Chaucer. Entire poems dedicated to such birds were written by Tennyson, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and many lesser-known poets. I had run across half a dozen British poems just about Sky Larks; Thomas Hardy had even written a poem about Shelley’s poem about the Sky Lark. The love of birds and of the English language were intermingled in British literary history. Somehow we Americans had failed to import this English love of birds along with the language, except in diluted form. 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