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Love in Another Language: Collected Poems and Selected Translations by Dick Davis Valley Press Auden’s ‘Roman Wall Blues’ andIn Love in Another Language Dick Davis is shown to be the outstanding formal poet of his generation, a master of rhyme and metre, a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our tradition. His Collected Poems draws on eight previous publications and includes a section of new work. Davis has also established himself as the leading translator of Persian literature in our time (Washington Post) and this volume includes a selection of