First published in 1886, Arthur Rimbaud s Illuminations the work of a poet who had abandoned poetry before the age of twenty-one changed the language of poetry. Hallucinatory and feverishly hermetic, it is an acknowledged masterpiece of world literature, still unrivaled for its haunting blend of sensuous detail and otherworldly astonishment. In Ashbery's translation of this notoriously elusive text, the acclaimed poet and translator lends his inimitable voice to a venerated classic. W. H. Auden recognized the strong affinities between Ashbery's poetry and Rimbaud's Illuminations in his 1956 introduction to Ashbery's first book, Some Trees, noting that "the imaginative life of the human individual stubbornly continues to live by the old magical notions." And it is here, in the "crystalline jumble" and "disordered collection of magic lantern slides" of Illuminations, as Ashbery writes in the Preface, that we can rediscover this essential lineage. "Absolute modernity" was for Rimbaud "acknowledging the simultaneity of all of life, the condition that nourishes poetry at every second. [...] If we are absolutely modern and we are it's because Rimbaud commanded us to be." Ashbery's idiomatic and lyrical translations of these forty-four texts convey the originality of Rimbaud's vision to English-speaking readers of a new century.

Strenously crafted and powerfully lyrical, Dylan Thomas' poetry has bewitched generations of readers. Admired and loved for their ingenuity and potency, his poems celebrate both inner and outer landscapes in the face of mortality and decay, human weakness and shortcomings. Thomas is regarded by many to be the greatest - if controversial - Welsh poet of the twentieth century.

The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a place name -- BURNT NORTON (1936), EAST COKER (1940), THE DRY SALVAGES (1941), and LITTLE GIDDING (1942). Eliot's insights into the cyclical nature of life are revealed through themes and images woven throughout the four poems. Spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. The work addresses the connections of the personal and historical present and past, spiritual renewal, and the very nature of experience; it is considered the poet's clearest exposition of his Christian beliefs. (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature)

Although he stopped writing at the age of nineteen, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) possessed the most revolutionary talent of the past hundred years, and his poetry and prose have increasingly influenced the major writers of our century. To his masterpiece A Season in Hell is here added Rimbaud's longest and possibly greatest single poem The Drunken Boat, with the original French en faceIlluminations, Rimbaud's major works are available as bilingual New Directions Paperbooks. The reputation of A Season in Hell, which is a poetic record of a man's examination of his own depths, has steadily increased over the years. Upon the first publication of Mrs. Varese's translation by New Directions, the Saturday Review wrote: "One may at last suggest that the translation of A Season in Hell has reached a conclusive point..." Concerning the twenty-five-stanza The Drunken Boat, Dr. Enid Starkie of Oxford University has written: "(It is) an anthology of separate lines of astonishing evocative magic which linger in the mind like isolated jewels." Rimbaud's life was so extraordinary that it has taken on the quality of a myth. A biographical chronology is included in this book.

《牧歌》是维吉尔早期最重要的作品，被认为是拉丁语文学的典范，充溢着浓郁的古罗马田园风采。《牧歌》共收诗10首。各首诗具体写作年代无法考证，内容大体是关于一些牧人的生活、爱情故事与美妙的田园风光，有时也涉及一些政治问题，对了解当时的社会及自然环境有很高的史料价值。

天津古籍出版社拟出版一套《名师讲义》丛书。从书名看，意思很清楚。他们来征求我的意见，我很赞成。 些位名师，都是二十世纪执教于中国各著名大学的知名学者。他们的学术地位早有定评。如周一移、朱自清等位先生，都是一代人师。再如游国恩、雷海宗、周祖谟等位先生，也都是各自学术领域中的权威。他们虽都已去世多年，但薪尽火传，其衣被学人，早非一代。他们虽有许多传世之作，但也有大量当年以讲义形式行世的作品，不甚被人注意保存，极有流失之虞。据我看，其中蕴藏的精金美玉决不会少。 今天常常听到“抢救文化遗产”之类的呼声。天津古籍出版要出版的这一套书，不正是此种功德之举的具体体现么？我认为，这些讲义是弥足珍贵的寿世之作，把他们成此整理出版，嘉惠学林，是做了一件大好事。

Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style in Glass, Irony and God. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay," a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Bronte sisters; "Book of Isaiah," a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and "The Fall of Rome," about her trip to "find" Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible alienation there.

西班牙詩人羅卡最著名的作品《吉普賽故事詩》出版於1928年，是世界文學史中的現代經典作品。紐約公共圖書館在1995-1996年為慶祝成立ㄧ百週年，挑選出對20世紀最具影響力的159本經典書籍，舉辦「世紀之書」展覽，《吉普賽故事詩》就是其中ㄧ本。本譯本為國內第一本由西班牙文直譯中文並附注解的《吉普賽故事詩》完整版，並收錄詩人自評本詩集的演講稿中譯及附注。藉由此譯本，期待能讓中文讀者一窺羅卡詩作中神秘而夢幻的吉普賽世界、詩人獨特的美感境界，以及詩人對其創作理念的闡述。 本書特色: ◎本書為臺灣國家科學委員會經典譯注計畫之一。

都会生活の哀歓、故郷への思い、流浪をかさねた北海道時代を歌いつづった「一握の砂」。26年の短い生涯の晩年の歌を集めた「悲しき玩具」。「一生に二度とかえってこないいのちの一秒」を愛した石川啄木の2歌集を収録。

天下好诗，无非猫诗——范晔 这里的每一首俳句，都是一小袋猫粮，经由读者的手，放在喵星人的小窝门口。这猫粮是四季不缺的，与星光、露水、梅花和嫩叶有关。——史航 麻雀为伴瘦蛙为友的小林一茶，也是个爱猫 人士，曾写下数百首关于猫的俳句。本书从中两 万多首一茶俳句中，精选约一百 五十首作品，分 新年和春、夏、秋、冬五章，呈现一年四季诗人 与猫以及其他小生物令人回味的生活点滴。 本书采用日汉对译的形式，忠实再现原句， 并依照现代日语的发 音规则标注假名读音。每首 俳句都配有灵动活泼的插画，与口语直译的译文 相得益彰，传达原诗诙谐豁达而不失悲悯的俳句之味。

"The Poetic Edda" comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times. Collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, "The Poetic Edda" was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars. Even then its value as poetry, as a source of historical information, and as a collection of entertaining stories was recognised. This meticulous translation succeeds in reproducing the verse patterns, the rhythm, the mood, and the dignity of the original in a revision that Scandinavian Studies says 'may well grace anyone's bookshelf'.