The back jacket says it all: "Here is the most inclusive collection of modern European poetry ever published in America. It contains poems by every important European poet (except for Cavafy, who couldn't be included for reasons of copyright), including works by Nobel Prize winners Pasternak, Quasimodo, and Seferis. It also contains striking works by the brilliant new voices in European poetry, including works by such poets as Gunter Grass and Yevtushenko. Each poet is represented by an unusually generous selection of his works. Here is the work of the foremost poet/translators of our day, including Pulitzer Prize winners Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur and W. D. Snodgrass, and such internationally famous writers as Stephen Spender, Thomas Merton and Samuel Beckett. What they have produced for this volume are not mere reflections of originals, but vital poems which form part of modern English and American literature."