Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she was known as a poet, the most popular of her poems reprinted many times in national magazines and anthologies. Her first book of poetry, <i>April Twilights, </i>was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and expanded it in a 1923 edition entitled <i>April Twilights and Other Poems. </i>This Everyman’s Library edition reproduces for the first time all the poems from both versions of <i>April Twilights</i>, along with a number of uncollected and previously unpublished poems by Cather, as well as an illuminating selection of her newly released letters.<br><br> In such lyrical poems as “The Hawthorn Tree,” “Winter at Delphi,” “Prairie Spring,” “Poor Marty,” and “Going Home,” Cather exhibits both a finely tuned sensitivity to the beauties of the physical world and a richly symbolic use of the landscapes of myth. The themes that were to animate her later masterpieces found their first expression in these haunting, elegiac ballads and sonnets.