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The Isles of Greece
John Lucas
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Description for The Isles of Greece
Paperback. For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Greek islands have proved to be places of beauty and enchantment, but also of violence, of love and death. This title groups together poems and prose extracts in order to provide some sense of the delights and tragedies that are part of the history and the present of all Greek islands. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 102 x 10. Weight in Grams: 86.
For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Greek islands have proved to be places of beauty and enchantment, but also of violence, of love and death. "Isles of Greece" doesn't plot a course from island to island. Instead it groups together poems and prose extracts in order to provide some sense of the glittering delights and dark tragedies that are part of the history and the present of all Greek islands. Solomos, the Greek national poet, was born on the island of Zante, as was his contemporary, Kalvos. Byron, was perhaps the first non-Greek of modern times to ... Read more
For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Greek islands have proved to be places of beauty and enchantment, but also of violence, of love and death. "Isles of Greece" doesn't plot a course from island to island. Instead it groups together poems and prose extracts in order to provide some sense of the glittering delights and dark tragedies that are part of the history and the present of all Greek islands. Solomos, the Greek national poet, was born on the island of Zante, as was his contemporary, Kalvos. Byron, was perhaps the first non-Greek of modern times to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906011161
SKU
V9781906011161
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99-41
About John Lucas
John Lucas was Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He is a poet and translator, a former poetry editor at the New Statesman and he has written many critical works.
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