The Sylphs of the Season with Other Poems

A varied assemblage of lyrical and narrative poems that move between visionary fable and intimate lyric, focusing on encounters with nature, seasonal moods, and the creative impulse. A long dream-poem personifies the seasons as ethereal sylphs who shape the poet’s sensibility, while compact sonnets respond to paintings and sculptural groups with reflections on artistic vision. Ballads and occasional pieces explore love, melancholy, eccentric characters, and the temperament of the painter, alternating vivid landscape imagery with meditations on creativity, transience, and the relations between feeling and art.