Through keen observations of the natural world, of art, literature, music and reflections on the human condition, Philippe Jaccottet opens his readers' eyes to the transcendent in everyday life. The Second Seedtime continues the project the Swiss poet began three decades earlier in his first volume of notebooks, Seedtime. Here, again, he gathers flashes of beauty dispersed around him like seeds that may blossom into poems or moments of inspiration. He returns, insistently, to such literary touchstones as Dante, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Hölderlin, Hopkins, Brontë and Dickinson, as well as musical greats including Bach, Monteverdi, Purcell and Schubert. The volume is the vivid chronicle of one man's passionate engagement with the life of the mind, the spiritof the natural world.