The title of his book, "Weather and Season," seems rather commonplace—until one realizes the importance in it of the two poems, "Homage to the Weather" and "In a Cold Season." The former of these is a beautiful evocation of remembered moments in many places, summoned up by the sudden appearance of bees—"a tide, high tide of golden air"—in a garden. The other is a poem about Eichmann, and about the poet's grandmother who perished in Nazi Germany. The range of Mr. Hamburger's work lies between these extremes.