George Seferis – Collected Poems – Revised Edition (Princeton Modern Greek Studies, 33) - Softcover

Seferis, George; Keeley, Edmund; Sherrard, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691014914 ISBN 13: 9780691014913

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1995

Synopsis

In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition, George Seferis: Collected Poems (expanded edition, 1981). Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, George Seferis (1900-71) has long been recognized as a major international figure, and Keeley and Sherrard are his ideal translators. They create, in the words of Archibald MacLeish, a "translation worthy of Seferis, which is to praise it as highly as it could be praised." Although Seferis was preoccupied with his tradition as few other poets of the same generation were with theirs, and although he was actively engaged in the immediate political aspirations of his nation, his value for readers lies in what he made of this preoccupation and this engagement in fashioning a broad poetic vision. He is also known for his stylistic purity, which allows no embellishment beyond that necessary for precise yet rich poetic statement.

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Review

"[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

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0691014914
• ISBN 13: 9780691014913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320