A delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses witches and ghosts hags and
apparitions haunt these pages-a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of
All Hallow's Eve. From Homer to Horace Pope to Poe Randall Jarrell to James Merrill Poems
Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural.
Ovid conjures the witch Medea Virgil channels Aeneas's wife from the afterlife Baudelaire
lays bare the wiles of the incubus and Emily Dickinson records two souls conversing in a crypt
in poems that call out to be read aloud whether around the campfire or the Ouija board. From
ballads and odes to spells and chants to dialogues and incantations here is a veritable
witches' brew of poems from the spirit world.
