A Greek Quintet: Poems by Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis, Elytis And Gatsos (Romiosyni) de Edmund Keeley (Translator), Philip Sherrard (Translator) - 1992-05-01

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Denise Harvey, 2000-07-01. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. 7x5x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. During this century the Greek world has produced a wealth of poetry that is as astonishing in its scope as it is in its vigour; and this anthology brings together a selection from the works of the five poets who may be said to take pride of place in substantiating this achievement. Two of them (George Seferis. and Odysseus Elytis) are Nobel Laureates, Cavafy is certainly one of the most ubiquitous poets of our times, the oracular grandeur of Angelos Sikelianos compan-ions him with W. B. Yeats, while Nikos Gatsos, less known outside Greece, is a fine lyrical poet and song writer. The poems in this selection are for the most part taken from the translators' more ample volumes of translations of Greek poetry, namely, their George Seferis: Collected Poems, of which Peter Levi wrote, 'I doubt if we shall ever see transla-tions as wonderfully full of Seferis as these'; their… Leer más

Greece: Denise Harvey, 2000. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. Very good. illustrated wraps 204 pp.

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Limni,Evvia,Greece: Denise Harvey, 2000 Book. New Book from Greece. Soft cover. Reprint. [First issued under the title "The Dark Crystal"] During the last hundred and more years the Greek world has produced a wealth of poetry that is as astonishing in its scope as it is in its vigour, and this anthology brings together a selection from the works of 5 poets. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard these poems have been chosen as those that translate most successfully into English and at the same time are representative of the best work of the original poets.216p. .

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