The book includes these essays: "Negative Capability: John Keats's Negotiation between Tradition and His Individual Talent"; "'Non horrebitis admovere nobis': Encountering Catullus in the Chinese Context"; "Four Versions of the Orpheus-Eurydice Myth: Virgil, Ovid, Rilke and Milosz"; "Oscillating Between Doubt and Belief: Macbeth's Ambivalent Attitude toward Fate"; "Here and the Beyond: Self-limitation and Self-fulfillment in The Rainbow"; "The Vision of the Orphic Poet in Emerson's 'Merlin.'"

In this chapbook of 24 poems, the author explores the intimate interaction between father and son, emotionally, psychologically and intellectually.

Poems by American poets Emerson and Dickinson, and by French poet Verlaine rendered from English and French into Chinese.

Essays on Roman, British, American, and Chinese poets, and on various topics related to poetics, written in Chinese.

Roman poet Horace's works rendered into Chinese.