本书集中向读者展示的是与教义相互印证的另一种俄耳甫斯诗教的重要文本——八十七首俄耳甫斯教祷歌，祷歌是任何教派信众的日常食粮，从宗教生活的意义上说，它甚至比教派的教义还要重要得多。本书中译稿依据西方古典学晚近两种公认比较成功的祷歌注疏本迻译。为便于读者的理解，特附上一篇西人晚近的研究论文作为附录。本书不仅值得与《俄耳甫斯教辑语》相互参看；与荷马、赫西俄德、品达、柏拉图对勘，获益可能会更大。

Between 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face.Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken. This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden's voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.

编辑推荐：本书是徐志摩和林徽因的诗选。选自了徐志摩：北方的冬天是冬天、悲思、山中大雾看景、那一点神明的火焰、雪花的快乐等多首诗集。还有林徽因的：谁爱这不息的变幻、仍然、那一晚、激昂、笑、情愿、深夜里听乐声等多首诗集。

李商隐是唐代后期杰出的、有代表性的诗人。他的作品，尖锐地揭露了腐朽的上层统治集团，反映了唐王朝衰颓期危机四伏的时代面貌，表现了那一时代被压抑的知识分子悲剧性的命运和心理。在诗歌艺术方面，他通过广泛学习前人，惨淡经营，突破了由盛唐和中唐诗人多方开拓而难乎为继的局面，创造了深婉精丽、富于感伤情调和象征暗示色彩的新诗风，为古代诗歌抒情艺术的发展作出了新的贡献。