Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945) was an American playwright, poet, and Japanese art expert. One of America’s most famous sonnet writers, he was widely regarded as a poet’s poet and influenced many other poets of his time. First published in 1916, he co-wrote Spectra under the pseudonym Anne Knish. Originally written as a farce of a type of then-famous experimental verse, the assortment of odd poetry surprisingly garnered a great deal of attention and ultimately overshadowed Ficke’s traditional prose writing. Contents include: Opus 1 - Drums , Opus 2 - Hope , Opus 6 - If I Were Only Dafter , Opus 7 - A Bunch of Grapes , Opus 9 - Frogs’ Legs on a Plate , Opus 13 - O Peacock-Feather , Opus 14 - I Had to Put Out my Leaves , Opus 15 - Despair Comes , Opus 16 - The Guillotine , etc. Other notable works by this author include: From the Isles: A Series of Songs out of Greece (1907), The Happy Princess, and Other Poems (1907), and Mrs. Morton of Mexico (1939). Ragged Hand - Read & Co is republishing this collection of classic poetry now in a new edition complete with the essay Metrical Regularity by H. P. Lovecraft.