

The original versions of poems by Ovid, Horace, and other classical poets that Lovecraft translated are provided. Poems that Lovecraft revised for various authors are included, along with (where extant) the original poems that served as the basis for the revisions.

For the first time, all of Lovecraft's 500 or more poems-including hundreds of Christmas greetings, untitled poems, fragments, and poems embedded in his published and unpublished letters-were gathered in accurate texts, with critical commentary and full bibliography.Since that time, a dozen or more poems or poetic fragments have been discovered by scholars and researchers, and this new edition prints these items along with several other works of interest. The publication in 2001 of The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H.
