A.M. Klein’s life as a writer began with poetry and ended with poetry. The earliest dateable work by Klein is ‘The Shechinah of Shadows,’ which he wrote in March 1926, and his latest is a set of verse translations from Horace, dated 1 August 1955. However, for nearly half of the intervening thirty-odd years Klein wrote little or no poetry. Most of his poetry was written in two periods – from the mid-twenties to the early thirties, and from the late thirties to the mid-forties – and even these two periods seem to have been made up of much shorter...