Yannis Ritsos : Selected Poems. Penguin Modern European Poets

Ritsos, Yannis

ISBN 10: 014042184X / ISBN 13: 9780140421842

Published by Penguin Books 1974, Harmondsworth, 1974

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207 pp. Paperback. Fading to spine. Covers clean. Internally clean. No ownership marks. Penguin compliments slip laid in. Scarce. 014042184x 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Yannis Ritsos : Selected Poems. Penguin Modern European Poets
• Publisher: Penguin Books 1974, Harmondsworth
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014042184X
• ISBN 13: 9780140421842
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Yannis Ritsos was born in Monembasia in 1909. His frst
collection of verse, Trakter (Tractors, 1934) brought him to the
forefront of the new poetic movement in Greece of the
1930s. He has published about forty volumes of verse of
which the best known are: Epitaphios (1936; parts of which
have been set to music by M. Theodorakis); To Tragoudi Tis
Adels Mou (My Sister's Song, 1937); Earini Symfnia
(Summer Symphony, 1938); Dokimasia (Trial, 1943); Ydria
(Pitcher, 1957); To Dentro Tis Fylakis Kai I Gynaikes (The
Prison Tree and the Women, 1963). Ritsos's poetry is intensely
lyrical and is often coloured by his left-wing sympathies. He
blends moder poetic techniques and conceptions with
traditional diction and forms successfully. He was arrested
during the military coup of April 1967 and deported to an
island prison. Since 1967 he has continued his extraordinarily
prolifc output, and has completed at least six new collections
of poems which were only recently allowed to be published
under the present regime in Greece. Selections of his poetry
have appeared in translation throughout the world, particularly in
all East European countries and in Germany, Spain, Italy, France,
Switzerland, Sweden and the United States.
Yarmis Ritsos has received a great number of interational
distinctions, the most recent of which were the Interational
Prize for Poetry, awarded in Belgium in 1972, and his
election as member of the Academy of Sciences and
Literature ofWest Germany

Language Notes

Text: English, Greek (translation)