Two narrative poems of blood and longing, drawn from the deep well of classical legend and medieval history. In Gebir, Landor summons a prince of ancient Spain who leads his warriors toward Egypt, only to find himself entangled with Charoba, a young queen whose fear and allure unlock something far more dangerous than war. Meanwhile, his brother Tamar mourns a nymph lost to supernatural sorrow, and the mountain strongholds echo with the weight of desire and glory. Then comes Count Julian, a darker turn: the story of a nobleman whose betrayal of Spain to the Moors stems from a wound no history book records, only poetry can heal. Landor writes in a vein of austere magnificence, his verses at once classical and urgent, spare yet overflowing with feeling. These are poems that understand how ambition curdles into tragedy, how love becomes a battlefield, how one act of betrayal can shape centuries. For readers who crave poetry with the gravity of epic and the intimacy of confession, who want to feel the ancient world pulse with modern anguish.
