In this Book
- George Seferis: Collected Poems - Revised Edition
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies
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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgement
- p. xx
- Mythistorema
- 1. The angel ...
- pp. 1-3
- Gymnopaidia
- I Santorini
- pp. 31-32
- II Mycenae
- pp. 33-34
- Book of Exercises
- Poems Given
- Letter of Mathios Paskalis
- pp. 39-40
- Syngrou Avenue, 1930
- p. 41
- Sixteen Haiku
- pp. 44-47
- Description
- p. 50
- Sirocco 7 Levante
- p. 51
- In the Manner of G. S.
- pp. 52-53
- The Old Man
- pp. 54-56
- Mr Stratis Thalassinos
- Five Poems by Mr S. Thalassinos
- I. Hampstead
- pp. 59-60
- II. Psychology
- p. 61
- IV. Fires of St John
- pp. 63-64
- V. Nijinsky
- pp. 65-66
- Mr Stratis Thalassinos Describes a Man
- 3. Adolescent
- pp. 69-70
- 4. Young Man
- pp. 71-72
- Notes for a ‘Week’
- Sketches for a Summer
- A Word for Summer
- pp. 89-91
- Epiphany, 1937
- pp. 92-93
- In the sea caves ...
- p. 100
- Stop looking for the sea ...
- pp. 101-102
- Logbook I
- Mathios Paskalis Among the Roses
- pp. 105-106
- Fine Autumn Morning
- pp. 107-108
- Piazza San Niccolò
- pp. 109-110
- The Return of the Exile
- pp. 113-114
- Interlude of Joy
- p. 116
- The Leaf of the Poplar
- p. 117
- Solidarity
- pp. 118-119
- The Last Day
- pp. 120-121
- Spring A.D.
- pp. 122-124
- The Jasmine
- p. 125
- Les Anges Sont Blancs
- pp. 129-131
- The Sentence to Oblivion
- pp. 132-133
- The King of Asini
- pp. 134-136
- Logbook II
- Days of June ’41
- p. 139
- Postscript
- p. 140
- The Figure of Fate
- pp. 141-142
- Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi
- pp. 144-145
- An Old Man on the River Bank
- pp. 146-147
- Stratis Thalassinos on the Dead Sea
- pp. 148-150
- Calligraphy
- p. 151
- Days of April ’43
- p. 152
- Here Among the Bones
- p. 153
- 'THRUSH'
- I. The houses I had they took away ...
- pp. 161-162
- II. I saw him yesterday ...
- pp. 163-166
- III. This wood that cooled my forehead ...
- pp. 167-170
- Logbook III
- Agianapa l
- p. 173
- Details on Cyprus
- p. 175
- The Demon of Fornication
- pp. 182-184
- Three Mules
- pp. 185-186
- Salamis in Cyprus
- pp. 190-192
- Euripides the Athenian
- p. 193
- Three Secret Poems
- On a Ray of Winter Light
- pp. 199-201
- Summer Solstice
- pp. 206-214
- from Book of Exercises II
- Letter to Rex Wamer
- pp. 217-219
- The Cats of St Nicholas
- pp. 220-222
- ‘On Aspalatho ...’
- pp. 223-224
- Appendix: Rhymed Poems
- Turning Point
- Shells, Clouds
- Turning Point
- p. 231
- Slowly You Spoke
- p. 232
- The Sorrowing Girl
- p. 233
- Automobile
- pp. 234-235
- The Companions in Hades
- p. 236
- The Mood of a Day
- pp. 239-240
- Erotikos Logos
- Erotikos Logos
- pp. 247-252
- The Cistern
- pp. 255-260
- from Book of Excercises
- from Logbook II
- Actors, Middle East
- p. 266
- from Logbook III
- Agianapa II
- p. 267
- In the Kyrenia District
- pp. 268-270
- Pedlar from Sidon
- pp. 271-272
- Bibliographical Note
- pp. 273-276
- Bibliographical Data
- pp. 291-292
- Index of Titles
- pp. 293-300