This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as “a series of images of migration” in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it as “a piece of writing of the same importance as the later work of James Joyce.” This first edition includes both the French and English texts on facing pages as well as Eliot’s Preface.