Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His most recent book is Beethoven in Denver and other poems (Conundrum Press, 1999). The book just previous was The Annotated Milton (Bantam), designed to help twenty-first century Americans read John Milton; his next book is likely to be a translation of poems by Nicolas Boileau, friend of Moliere and �mentor� to Dryden and Pope. (2000)
