<p>First published at the age of fifteen and admired for six decades as a poetic virtuoso, Daryl Hine is recognized today as one of the strongest Canadian poets of the twentieth century. His poems, widely cultured and often autobiographical, engage with a remarkable variety of forms, genres, and subjects. With their complex syntax and lavish deployment of metres, tropes, and rhyme, the poems in<i>The Essential Daryl Hine</i> reveal what Pollock, in his illuminating foreword, calls &quot;a matador of art, fighting the toro of death with consummate style.&quot;</p><p>The Essential Poets Series presents the works of Canada's most celebrated poets in editions that are beautiful, accessible, and affordable.<i>The Essential Daryl Hine</i> is the 12th volume in the series.</p>