This uncommon collection of over 100 of Ruthven Todd's best-loved poems will reintroduce the reading public to one of the great twentieth-century British poets, whose work has been compared to that of W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas. The gentle and modest poet's vast learning and talents in an extraordinary variety of arts are as startling as they are unobtrusive. First published by Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown, Garland for the Winter Solstice is a harmonious blend of the serene naturalism of the English romantics, the mysticism of Blake, and the Celtic passion of Thomas.