This selection of the verse of Valencian poet Vicent Andres Estelles (1924-1993) is accompanied by a translation into English from the original Catalan. The format of an innovative dialogue with classical authors - a cornerstone of Estellesian expression - constitutes an ingenious invocation and parodic commentary on the output and ethos of the Latin poets Horace, Ovid, Virgil and Catullus, the medieval patriarch of Valencian letters Ausia s March and the Renaissance Castilian poet, Garcilaso de la Vega. For Estelle s, Octavian Rome provides a parallel to the Franco dictatorship and the historic