Bardsley Beverly (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. New trade softcover in glossy printed wraps. 8vo. (6 x 0.87 x 9 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes authors' notes. 348 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In Greece, more than most places, past and present, living and dead, have always coexisted: against the backdrop of that spare, harsh, beautiful limestone landscape, ideas and heroes have battled through the centuries. Homer and Makriyannis tell the same story. Those who fought for freedom against a Persian invasion share voices and profiles with the anti-Nazi guerrillas of World War II - not to mention their common habit of internecine stasis, civil war. Feuds and vendettas, the endless remembrance of ancient wrongs, run unbroken from the doomed house of Atreus to the bloody political infighting that still surfaces today. Ghosts crowd the islands; Trojans and Turks are indistinguishable. All this is the fabric of the poetry of Yannis Ritsos. In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists: Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Orestes, Electra, Iphigenia- Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece. These soliloquies (the speakers also include Ajax, Persephone, Helen, and Phaedra) move effortlessly between mythic and modern realities, haunting yet immediate. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, "Moonlight Sonata." Ritsos regarded The Fourth Dimension, rightly, as his finest achievement. Much of it previously untranslated, it is now presented to English-speaking readers for the first time in its entirety: the major work that demonstrates his status as one of the greatest poets of this century.

Softcover. Condition: As New. First Edition. uber-scarce in the trade, and this copy is SIGNED by Beverley Bardsley to the previous owner at first free endpaper, the classicist Peter Morris Green, "For Peter, with much love, from Beverly." Unpaginated, but roughly 24 pp. and with a fine black-and-white engraving insde rear flapMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. Signed by Author.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Condition: New. In the dramatic monologues, especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists, this work presents a poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece. It also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anth.