Voices of Modern Greece: Selected Poems by C. P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691013829 ISBN 13: 9780691013824

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1982

Synopsis

This anthology is composed of recently revised translations selected from the five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard during the past two decades. The poems chosen are those that translate most successfully into English and that are also representative of the best work of the original poets. C. P. Cavafy and Angelos Sikelianos are major poets of the first half of the twentieth century. George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, who followed them, both won the Nobel Prize in literature. Nikos Gatsos is a very popular translator, lyricist, and critic.

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About the Author

Edmund Keeley (1928-2022) was the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, emeritus, and professor emeritus of creative writing at Princeton University. Philip Sherrard (1922-1995) was research fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and lecturer in the history of the Orthodox Church at King's College London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691013829
• ISBN 13: 9780691013824
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216