Selected Translations

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. xii, [2], 237. Quarter-bound maroon cloth over grey paper-covered boards, lettered in silver to spine. Notes, bibliographical references, index. Printed dustwrapper (priced at $25.00 to front flap). Edited by Daniel Weissbort, with a six-page introduction.

Throughout his career, Hughes was continuously engaged in acts of translation, for the page and for the stage, starting with his role in the establishment of the annual Poetry International in London and the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, which he co-founded with Daniel Weissbort in 1965. This volume offers a broad selection from his numerous translations, including "The Tibetan Book of the Dead", "Aeschylus", "Euripides", "Ovid", "Seneca", "Racine", together with some hitherto unpublished material and excerpts from essays and letters.