Paul Burns is an Oxford modern-language scholar who has combined publishing with translating for most of his life, recently also writing Lives of Saints. Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres is Principal Language Tutor at the University of Warwick and the author of numerous translations, books and articles. Their first joint translation in this series, Antonio Machado: Lands of Castile and Other Poems, appeared in 2002, and they are preparing a translation of a novella by Miguel de Unamuno.

...a highly recommended no-nonsense introduction to the work of Mistral'

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionI. Desolation:Rodin's the Thinker, For the Hebrew People, The Lone Child, Ballad, The Sonnets of Death, prayer, The Bones of the Dead, Patagonian Landscape, To the Clouds, autumn, SummitII. TendernessRocking, Discovery, Mexican Child, Fear, The Rat, The Air, Mountain, Larks, The EarthFeeling:Flight, The Rose, The Foreigner, Drinking, We were All going to be Queens, Things, Catalonian WomenIV. Wine PressThe Other, The Fall of Europe, Hospital, Helpers, The Jewish Refugee, Daybreak; Morning; Evening; Night, The Last TreeV. Poem of ChileWaking up, My Mountain, Patch of Clover, Valparaiso, Poplar Groves, Talcahuano, Apple Trees, Ferns Southern Islands, Bibliograhy.

Paul Burns is an Oxford modern-language scholar who has combined publishing with translating for most of his life, recently also writing Lives of Saints. Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres is Principal Language Tutor at the University of Warwick and the author of numerous translations, books and articles. Their first joint translation in this series, Antonio Machado: Lands of Castile and Other Poems, appeared in 2002, and they are preparing a translation of a novella by Miguel de Unamuno.

...a highly recommended no-nonsense introduction to the work of Mistral'

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionI. Desolation:Rodin's the Thinker, For the Hebrew People, The Lone Child, Ballad, The Sonnets of Death, prayer, The Bones of the Dead, Patagonian Landscape, To the Clouds, autumn, SummitII. TendernessRocking, Discovery, Mexican Child, Fear, The Rat, The Air, Mountain, Larks, The EarthFeeling:Flight, The Rose, The Foreigner, Drinking, We were All going to be Queens, Things, Catalonian WomenIV. Wine PressThe Other, The Fall of Europe, Hospital, Helpers, The Jewish Refugee, Daybreak; Morning; Evening; Night, The Last TreeV. Poem of ChileWaking up, My Mountain, Patch of Clover, Valparaiso, Poplar Groves, Talcahuano, Apple Trees, Ferns Southern Islands, Bibliograhy.