Elizabeth Daryush has been one of the most neglected poets writing in English in this century. She stubbornly held on to certain traditional poetic procedures and maintained a diction that frequently was criticized as archaic. The literary revolutions effected by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot never touched the somewhat insular attitude she had toward poetry. Consequently, she has been dismissed as belonging more to the discredited world of the late Victorians than to the poetically more authentic movements of the twentieth century. Yet such an assessment is slowly being recognized as both unjust and inaccurate. American poet-critic Yvor Winters championed her from the beginning of her career; Donald E. Stanford sought her out in her old age and published several of her last poems in the influential Southern Review. In her native England such important poets as Roy Fuller and Donald Davie have recently "discovered" her and...