 He wrote poetic works including "Estances" (1919 and 1930), "Bierville Elegies" ("Les Elegies de Bierville") (1943), "Salvatge Cor" (1952), "Del joc i del foc" (1947), and "Esbós per a tres oratoris" (1957), as well as translations of Constantine Cavafy, Friedrich Hölderlin, Edgar Allan Poe, Rainer Maria Rilke and Franz Kafka, and classical works including Homer´s "Odyssey", Plutarch´s "Parallel Lives", and dramas by Sophocles and Euripides into Catalan.Riba's work has been translated into English by Joan Gili and Pearse Hutchinson.The famous American critic Harold Bloom included Riba's poetry in his selection of the Western canon.