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Voices of Modern Greece
Edmund Keeley
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Description for Voices of Modern Greece
Paperback. Presents translations selected from the five volumes of work by poets of modern Greece. This book contains poems that translate successfully into English and which are representative of the best work of the original poets. Editor(s): Keeley, Edmund; Sherrard, Philip. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
This anthology is composed of recently revised translations selected from the five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard during the past two decades. The 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 and Angelos Sikelianos are major poets of the first half of the twentieth century. George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, who followed them, both won the Nobel Prize in literature. Nikos Gatsos is a very popular translator, lyricist, and critic.
This anthology is composed of recently revised translations selected from the five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard during the past two decades. The 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 and Angelos Sikelianos are major poets of the first half of the twentieth century. George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, who followed them, both won the Nobel Prize in literature. Nikos Gatsos is a very popular translator, lyricist, and critic.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691013824
SKU
V9780691013824
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Ref
99-15
About Edmund Keeley
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.
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