George Seferis : Collected Poems, Revised Edition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seferis, George.

Series:

Princeton Modern Greek Studies

Princeton Modern Greek Studies ; v.44

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgement

Mythistorema

1. The angel

2. Still one more well inside a cave

3. I woke with this marble head in my hands

4. And a soul/ if it is to know itself

5. We didn't know them

6. The garden with its fountains in the rain

7. Westward the sea merges with a mountain range

8. What are they after, our souls, travelling

9. The harbour is old, I can't wait any longer

10. Our country is closed in, all mountains

11. Sometimes your blood froze like the moon

12. Three rocks, a few burnt pines, a lone chapel

13. Dolphins banners and the sound of cannons

14. Three red pigeons in the light

15. Sleep wrapped you in green leaves like a tree

16. On the track, once more on the track

17. Now that you are leaving

18. I regret having let a broad river slip

19. Even if the wind blows it doesn't cool us

20. In my breast the wound opens again

21 We who set out on this pilgrimage

22. So very much having passed before our eyes

23. A little farther

24. Here end the works of the sea, the works oflove

Gymnopaidia

I. Santorini

II. Mycenae

Book of Exercises

Poems Given

Letter of Mathios Paskalis

Syngrou Avenue, 1930

Reflections on a Foreign Line of Verse

Sixteen Haiku

This body that hoped to flower like a branch . ..

Flight

Description

Sirocco 7 Levante

In the Manner of G. S.

The Old Man

Mr Stratis Thalassinos

Five Poems by Mr S. Thalassinos

I. Hampstead

II. Psychology

III. All Things Pass Away

IV. Fires of St John

V. Nijinsky

Mr Stratis Thalassinos Describes a Man

1. Mr Stratis Thalassinos Describes a Man

2. Child

3. Adolescent

4. Young Man

5. Man

Notes for a 'Week'

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Sketches for a Summer.

A Word for Summer

Epiphany, 1937

Raven

Flowers of the rock facing the green sea .. .

The warm water reminds me each morning . ..

Epitaph

Between two bitter moments ...

In the sea caves .. .

Stop looking for the sea . ..

Logbook I

Mathios Paskalis Among the Roses

Fine Autumn Morning

Piazza San Niccolò

Our Sun

The Return of the Exile

The Container of the Uncontainable

Interlude of Joy

The Leaf of the Poplar

Solidarity

The Last Day

Spring A. D.

The Jasmine

Narration

Morning

Les Anges Sont Blancs

The Sentence to Oblivion

The King of Asini

Logbook II

Days of June '41

Postscript

The Figure of Fate

Kerk Str. Oost, Pretoria, Transvaal

Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi

An Old Man on the River Bank

Stratis Thalassinos on the Dead Sea

Calligraphy

Days of April' 43

Here Among the Bones

Last Stop

'Thrush'

I. The houses I had they took away . ..

II. I saw him yesterday . ..

III. This wood that cooled my forehead . ..

Logbook III

Agianapa I

Dream

Details on Cyprus

In the Goddess's Name I Summon You ...

Helen

Memory I

The Demon of Fornication

Three Mules

Pentheus

Memory II

Salamis in Cyprus

Euripides the Athenian

Engomi

Three Secret Poems

On a Ray of Winter Light

On Stage

Summer Solstice

From Book of Exercises II

Letter to Rex Wamer

The Cats of St Nicholas

'On Aspalathoi . . . '

Appendix: Rhymed Poems

Turning Point

Shells, Clouds

Slowly You Spoke

The Sorrowing Girl

Automobile

Denial

The Companions in Hades

Fog

The Mood of a Day

Rocket

Rhyme

Erotikos Logos

The Cistern

From Book of Exercises

Pantoum

From Logbook II

Crickets

Actors, Middle East

From Logbook III

Agianapa II.

In the Kyrenia District

Pedlar from Sidon

Bibliographical Note

Notes

Biographical Data

Index of Titles.

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ISBN:

0-691-26467-8

OCLC:

1452600251