This is a great collection of old poetry. It’s hard to believe that the works here are more than 120 years old, and we really don’t know very much about the author at all. Death, corpses, the macabre, and the Gothic permeate the collection, and there’s a solid dose of that 19th century understanding of the “Orient.” Babylon as a place of mystery, for example, and the secrets of Persia, etc. etc. etc. I really like the collection: such works have an aesthetic place, even if it does not belong in serious scholarship or most works of fiction or poetry.