The attentive reader of Shakespeare's Poems and Plays can hardly fail to notice the remarkable frequency of the Poet's allusion to Birds, not merely as a great choir of songsters, enlivening the woods and fields with their varied music, but as individual creatures, each endowed with its own special characters. Partial Contents: His feeling for Nature; Sympathy with Life; In Winter and Storm; Birds mentioned my Shakespeare; Progress of English Poetry; Wordsworth, Shelly and Keats. Illustrated.