This bilingual anthology of poetry by Kostis Palamas contains some of his recently discovered youthful poems, some of his major poetic collections, and more from his mature and final period of his life. Most of the poems are translated into English here for the first time.

The Appendix presents opinions on Palamas' poetry by various foreign poets and literary figures, such as Oscar Wilde, Countess de Noailles, Rabindranath Tagore, Romain Rolland and André Maurois, Miguel de Unamuno, and others.

An chapter about Palamas and the Nobel Prize is included, with three letters of recommendation by Swedish Nobel laureate Verner von Heidenstam, two by Danish archaeologist Frederik Poulsen, and three letters by Norwegian art critic Harry Fett, which are also published here for the first time.