Format: Paperback

Condition: New

Product dimensions: 320 pages, 8.5 X 5.5 X 1

Publishing Info: Princeton University Press, 1995

Language: English

ISBN - 13: 9780691014913

 

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In this new edition of George Seferis' 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.

 

About the Authors: 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.

 

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