This list of gift ideas for poets and writers takes readers around the world and back in time through language: Translator Robert Alter shares a personal and passionate account of the art of Bible translation while poet Michael Schmidt explores the enduring fascinating of the epic of Gilgamesh; the original version of the Grimms’ fairy tales get a fresh look in a beautiful illustrated volume and the story of efforts to produce the first distinctly American English dictionary is brought to compelling light; the Writers on Writers series showcases Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop, Alexander McCall Smith on W.H. Auden, Michael Dirda on Arthur Conan Doyle, and Phillip Lopate on Susan Sontag while the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets features poetry from Eleanor Wilner, Kathleen Graber, Austin Smith, Dora Malech, Miller Oberman, and Myronn Hardy.
![The Art of Bible Translation](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/The%20Art%20of%20Bible%20Translation.jpg?itok=R2HCFx-x)
The Art of Bible Translation
![Gilgamesh](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Gilgamesh.jpg?itok=AWc8un-y)
Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem
![Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Original%20Folk%20and%20Fairy%20Tales.jpg?itok=DidoSoW_)
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition
![The Dictionary Wars](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Dictionary%20Wars.jpg?itok=QgmWLt7S)
The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language
![On Elizabeth Bishop](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/On%20Elizabeth%20Bishop.jpg?itok=aBODx3yV)
On Elizabeth Bishop
![What Auden Can Do For You](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/What%20Auden%20Can%20Do%20For%20You.jpg?itok=1yuxrORL)
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You
![On Conan Doyle](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/On%20Conan%20Doyle.jpg?itok=B0o_8ctG)
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling
![Notes on Sontag](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Notes%20on%20Sontag.jpg?itok=avR7NgZ0)
Notes on Sontag
![The River Twice](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/The%20River%20Twice.jpg?itok=4EzGgLt9)
The River Twice: Poems
![Before Our Eyes](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Before%20Our%20Eyes_0.jpg?itok=Al-IE5FE)
Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 1975–2017
![Flyover Country](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Flyover%20Country.jpg?itok=f9owU6BP)
Flyover Country: Poems
![Stet](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Stet.jpg?itok=A4DG-KkH)
Stet
![The Unstill Ones](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/The%20Unstill%20Ones%20copy.jpg?itok=78juI-Ap)
The Unstill Ones: Poems
![Radioactive Starlings](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Radioactive%20Starlings.jpg?itok=K8vjW3eL)