This two-voume work, now reprinted in one volume, provides the standard critical edition of the early Greek iambic and elegiac poets. The first volume, revised and updated in 1989, includes Archilochus, Hipponax and the Theognidea while the second volume, updated in 1992, includes fragments of Simonides' elegies and fragments of a comic poem attributed to Homer. The poems are presented in theoriginal Greek without English translation.