Voices of modern Greece : selected poems / by Cavafy ... [and others] ; translated and edited by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933

Keeley, Edmund.

Sherrard, Philip.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Lockert library of poetry in translation

Lockert library of poetry in translation.

Language:

English

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry, Modern--20th century--Translations into English.

Greek poetry, Modern.

English poetry--Translations from Greek, Modern.

English poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 203 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1981]

Summary:

This anthology is composed of revised translations selected from five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Keeley and Sherrard during the 1960s and '70s. 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, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, and Nikos Gatsos.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0691064733

OCLC:

8055892