Poems Bewitched and Haunted Poetry Tang Dynasty poets in China

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Poems Bewitched and Haunted Poetry Tang Dynasty poets in ChinaEdited by John Hollander A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pagesa literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallows Eve. From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural. Ovid conjures the witch Medea, Virgil channels Aeneass wife