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The Collected Poems of a remarkable modern poet is reissued to celebrate his centenary.

The Collected poems of F.T. Prince introduces to the United States the great English outsider poet of his generation (the generation of Auden and Spender). Apparently traditional, Prince explores the lost and often unseen details of human experience. He is one of the poetic fathers of young English and American poets who, despite their more open forms, often arrive at the terrain already occupied by F.T. Prince.--Cover.

Features a poem that uses a plaque for Stendhal and a chapel with paintings by Caravaggio to suggest young and older experience.

"The sequence is based on translations of poems by Po Chü-i, which appear in Arthur Waley's 'A hundred and seventy Chinese poems' and 'More translations from the Chinese' ... Each set of stanzas (or 'variation') has a different arrangement of rhymes and line-lengths"--Note (unnumbered page 29).