Ritsos in Parentheses / Yannis Ritsos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ritsos, Giannēs, 1909-1990, author.

Contributor:

Keeley, Edmund.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Lockert library of poetry in translation.

Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation ; 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritsos, Giannēs, 1909-1990--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The three volumes of Ritsos's poetry translated here-Parentheses, 1946-47, Parentheses, 1950-61, and The Distant, 1975-represent a thirty year poetic journey and a developing sensibility that link the poet's subtler perceptions at different moments of his maturity. In his introduction to the poems, and as an explanation of the book's title, Edmund Keeley writes: "The two signs of the parenthesis are like cupped hands facing each other across a distance, hands that are straining to come together, to achieve a meeting that would serve to reaffirm human contact between isolated presences; but though there are obvious gestures toward closing the gap between the hands, the gestures seem inevitably to fail, and the meeting never quite occurs." In terms of the development of Ritsos's poetic vision, the distance within the parenthesis is shorter in each of the two earlier volumes than in the most recent volume. There the space has become almost infinite, yet Ritsos's powerfully evocative if stark landscape reveals a stylistic purity that is the latest mark of his greatness.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Parentheses, 1946-47

Parentheses, 1950-61

The Distant, 1975

YANNIS RITSOS: BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

THE LOCKERT LIBRARY OF POETRY IN TRANSLATION

Backmatter

Notes:

Poems in English and Greek.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691603391

0691603391

9780691632735

0691632731

9780691013589

0691013586

9781400870882

1400870887

OCLC:

933516483