George Seferis: Collected Poems, 1924-1955. Bilingual Edition - Bilingual Edition (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) - Softcover

Seferis, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 069101373X ISBN 13: 9780691013732

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1982

Synopsis

This new bilingual edition of George Seferis: Collected Poems both supplements and revises the two earlier editions published in 1967 and 1969. It presents for the first time the complete Notes for a 'Week,' " Three Secret Poems, and three later poems that were not collected by the poet himself but whose English translation he authorized during his lifetime.

Originally published in 1982.

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Review

Reveals a dedication and insight which have made İthese¨ translations the standard work for our time.

İSeferis¨ is a deeply civilized and profoundly Greek man who draws on the whole heritage of his people. . . . To read Seferis is to experience a sense of honesty, a cool scorn for any kind of evasion.
[Seferis] is a deeply civilized and profoundly Greek man who draws on the whole heritage of his people. . . . To read Seferis is to experience a sense of honesty, a cool scorn for any kind of evasion. -- Time
Seferis has a history and mythology and is a part of both, while at the same time he is a thoroughly 20th-century citizen of humanity at large. . . . Here is a poet who has a sweep and a delicacy calling to mind Yeats and few other names of the century. -- Washington Post
The serenity and fullness of the imagery, his evocation of aspects of a familiar landscape, the confident rhetorical manner, the absence of any intellectual (as against sentimental) irony--all this is immensely impressive. . . . -- New Republic
Reveals a dedication and insight which have made [these] translations the standard work for our time. -- Times Literary Supplement
Seferis has a history and mythology and is a part of both, while at the same time he is a thoroughly 20th-century citizen of humanity at large. . . . Here is a poet who has a sweep and a delicacy calling to mind Yeats and few other names of the century. -- "Washington Post

[Seferis] is a deeply civilized and profoundly Greek man who draws on the whole heritage of his people. . . . To read Seferis is to experience a sense of honesty, a cool scorn for any kind of evasion. -- "Time

Reveals a dedication and insight which have made [these] translations the standard work for our time. -- "Times Literary Supplement

The serenity and fullness of the imagery, his evocation of aspects of a familiar landscape, the confident rhetorical manner, the absence of any intellectual (as against sentimental) irony--all this is immensely impressive. . . . -- "New Republic

About the Author

Edmund Keeley is Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English, Emeritus, at Princeton University. In addition to his work in the criticism and translation of modern Greek poetry, he has written six novels and The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair (Princeton). Philip Sherrard, the well-known author of books on modern Greek religion and culture, lives in Greece.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 069101373X
• ISBN 13: 9780691013732
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 550
• Editor: Keeley Edmund