He has brought to these lyrics of Tin Ujevic a music that an alert English-speaking reader cannot fail to recognise. Transferred and transformed from the Croatian, here is his melancholy turn-of-the-century lyricism, comparable to that of Thomas Hardy, of Edward Thomas, and of early Yeats. So here is a chance to meet Ujevic on his own terms in translations that offer the full resonance of the originals." — Anne Stevenson