Life Immovable : First Part / Kostes Palamas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palamas, Kostes, author.

Contributor:

Phoutrides, Aristides E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry, Modern--Translations into English.

Local Subjects:

Greek poetry, Modern--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.): 1 Frontispiz

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

" ...]work. With his work, I did spend many long and pleasant hours. But him I visited only once. The man from whom I had once shrunk as from a monster of evil, now I shunned for fear I had not yet learned to admire in accordance with his greatness. Owing to the urgent demand of an old classmate, Dr. Ch. N. Lambrakis, who knew the poet, I went to see him one April afternoon in his office at the University with my friend and fellow traveller, Mr. Francis P. Farquhar. Mr. Palamas was sitting at his official desk; but as soon as we entered he rose to receive us and then sat modestly in the corner of a sofa. He had changed very little in ...]."

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

TRANSLATIONS

FATHERLANDS

THE RETURN 1897

FRAGMENTS FROM THE SONG TO THE SUN 1899

VERSES OF A FAMILIAR TUNE 1900

THE PALM TREE

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-59881-4

OCLC:

464623225