April Twilights and Other Poems: Foreword by Robert Thacker

Her first book of poetry, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded it in a 1923 edition entitled This Everyman’s Library edition reproduces for the first time all the poems from both versions of , along with a number of uncollected and previously unpublished poems by Cather, as well as an illuminating selection of her newly released letters. In such lyrical poems as “The Hawthorn Tree,” “Winter at Delphi,” “Prairie Spring,” “Poor Marty,” and “Going Home,” Cather exhibits both a finely tuned sensitivity to the beauties of the physical world and a richly symbolic use of the landscapes of myth. The themes that were to animate her later masterpieces found their first expression in these haunting, elegiac ballads and sonnets.