Collected Poems

George Seferis Translated, Edited, and Introduced by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

ISBN 10: 0856460532 / ISBN 13: 9780856460531

Published by Anvil Press Poetry, 1982

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White card covers lettered in black and brown. Spine a little faded and 6 cm crease across lower front corner. Internally name written in top corner of half title.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Poems
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856460532
• ISBN 13: 9780856460531
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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 Collected Poems" (expanded edition, 1981). Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, George Seferis (1900-71) 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.