This book is set by hand in Garamond, a modern rendering by the American Type Founders Company of the type cut by Claude Garamond in the sixteenth century.

This a complete translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours that restores to the English-speaking reader a critical work in the development of a significant figure in 20th-century German poetry.

Piers the Ploughman, the work of an unknown minor cleric of the late fourteenth century, was perhaps the most widely read work of its day and is now recognized as the great representative English poem of the late Middle Ages.

This third edition has changes to the translation and to the annotations and bibliography"--