How to Read a Poem (Meridian)
Burton Raffel has taught English, Classics, and Comparative Literature at universities in the United States, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations ofBeowulf, Horace: Odes, Epodes, Epistles, Satires, The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, From the Vietnamese, Ten Centuries of Poetry, The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich, Mandelstram (with Alla Burago), andPoems From the Old EnglishandThe Annotated Milton; several critical studies,Introduction to Poetry, How to Read a Poem, The Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry, andThe Forked Tounge: A Study of the Translation Process; andMia Poems, a volume of his own poetry. Mr. Raffel practiced law on Wall Street and taught in the Ford Foundation’s English Language Teacher Training Project in Indonesia.