Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944), Hungary's classicist-avant garde poet, was also a prolific translator and editor who wrote some of his greatest poems in the labor camps and copper mines of Yugoslavia before being killed by the Nazis at an early age. This collection explores such topics as neo-classicism and avant-garde in Radnóti's work, Radnóti and the Bible, and his relationship to modern writers and the ancients.