George Seferis: Collected Poems (Princeton Modern Greek Studies) - Hardcover

Seferis, George; Keeley, Edmund

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691068615 ISBN 13: 9780691068619

Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

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 (1900-1971) 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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

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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• Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0691068615
• ISBN 13: 9780691068619
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