Sorrows of Eros and Other Poems

Henry Weinfeld is Emeritus Professor of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a poet, translator, and literary scholar. He's the author of The Poet Without A Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History and a translation of and commentary on The Collected Poems of Stéphane Mallarme. His poems have appeared in Talisman, Colorado Review, and The Best American Poetry.

"Again, again one returns to Weinfield's verses for their musical resonance, intellectual incisiveness, unflinching wit, and inescapable relevance: they are companions to be treasured." —Allen Mandelbaum, author of The Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's Odyssey"Behind columns of discarded form, Weinfield moves stealthy cargo: passion, responsibility, vocation. His poems, and their grave music, are undistracted and undeterred." —Ross Feld, author of the novels Years Out, Only Shorter, Shapes Mistaken, and Zwilling's Dream, and a collection of poetry, Plum Poems"The elements which I most appreciate in Henry Weinfield's poetry are the combination of playfulness and seriousness, the union of traditional form and contemporary sensibility, the commitment to words and to things, the concern for poetry and for persons, the involvement with feeling and with thought, the attachment both to literature and to life." —Julia Budenz, author of From the Gardens of Flora Baum"What strikes first in The Sorrows of Eros is the beautiful bravery of Weinfield's handling of form. The formal language, at once learned and yet contemporary, heightens and modulates perception, passion, speculative thought, weaving itself into a tempered music of substance, depth, and originality." —Michael Heller, author of Telescope: Selected Poems"Based in the great tradition of English poetry, Henry Weinfield's beautifully crafted, memorable lyrics are passionate, witty and philosophical. Here, with Classical precision, the muse Euterpe is given rigorously intelligent voice." —Michael Perkins, author of Carpe Diem: New and Selected Poems