But to many of us it is not dead. It is more alive, more essential, more human than anything we can find in contemporary English literature. The publication of such classics, in the way we propose, may help to create a higher standard for poetry than that which prevails, and a higher standard of appreciation of the writers of antiquity, who have suffered too long at the hands of clumsy metrists. We do not deny that there are many good translations in English of classical writers—Lang’s _Homer_ and _Theokritos_, Mackail’s _Anthology_ or Aldington’s _Apuleius_, for instance; but too often such works are lonely and austerely expensive. THE POET’S TRANSLATION SERIES will appear first in _The Egoist_ (starting September 1st) and will then be reprinted and issued as small pamphlets, simple and inexpensive, so that none will buy except to read. The translations will be done by poets whose interest in their authors will be neither conventional nor frigid. The translators will take no concern with glosses, notes, or any of the apparatus with which learning smothers beauty. They will endeavor to give the words of these Greek and Latin authors as simply and as clearly as may be. Where the text is confused, they will use the most characteristic version; where obscure, they will interpret. The first six pamphlets, when bound together, will form a small collection of unhackneyed poetry, too long buried under the dust of pedantic scholarship. They range over a period of two thousand years of literature—a proof of the amazing vitality of the Hellenic tradition. If this venture has the success its promoters look for, other similar and possibly larger pamphlets will be issued. 1. (Ready September) The complete poems (25) of Anyte of Tegea, now brought together in English for the first time: translated by Richard Aldington. (8 pages) 2d. (2½d. post free). 2. (Ready October) An entirely new version of the poems and new fragments, together with the more important of the old fragments, of Sappho: translated by Edward Storer. (12 pages) 4d (4½d. post free). 3. Choruses from the _Rhesos_ of Euripides: translated by H. D. 4. A choice of the Latin poetry of the Italian Renaissance, many now translated for the first time, by Richard Aldington. 5. The Poems of Leonidas of Tarentum, now collected—and many translated for the first time in English: by James Whitall. 6. The _Mosella_ of Ausonius, translated by F. S. Flint. All the pamphlets—except the first—will be twelve pages long and cost four pence; 4½d. post free. The series of six 2s. post free. The pamphlets will be issued monthly. To be obtained from: The Egoist, Oakley House, Bloomsbury Street, W. C., or from Richard Aldington, 7 Christ Church Place, Hampstead, N. W. Subscriptions will be taken through THE LITTLE REVIEW. _Wanted: A “Spoon River Anthology.”_