This edition offers a concise panorama of the poet's work, simultaneously highlighting his deeper achievements. It captures the facets of a protean personality: the various poetic genres and diverse styles, the thematic range as well as the creative obsessions with certain dominant ideas and sources of inspiration, and finally the successive approaches to crucial problems of human fate, society, history, and art itself.
For this reason, all the "eras" of poetic evolution are represented in the volume.