
Complete Poems
George Seferis(Author)
Carcanet Classics (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 27. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-78410-667-6 (ISBN)
Description
George Seferis's Complete Poems reissued as a Carcanet Classic. George Seferis is the great Greek poet of the twentieth century, a classic among classics. The formal and thematic versatility of his work, its decisively modern inflections, call Eliot's poems to mind: fastidious and expansive in equal measure. Like Eliot's deep-rooted Modernism, Seferis's never loses touch with the stones and inscriptions of the past. He writes for his and our time, poetically and politically alert: culture can free us or, misapplied, can trammel us. Aptly described as 'the unlocker of ancient stones and sea voyages', Seferis was for Peter Levi `one of the greatest writers in this century in any language. . . From Seferis it was possible to learn. . . what seriousness about poetry is.' And Archibald MacLeish wrote, 'if any contemporary poet can be said to be essential, Seferis is that poet, and this' - referring to an earlier edition of this book - 'is the true body of his work'.
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'One of the greatest writers in this century in any language ... From Seferis it was possible to learn ... what seriousness about poetry is.' - Peter LeviMore details
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 207 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78410-667-6 (9781784106676)
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George Seferis
Complete Poems: George Seferis
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05/2000
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George Seferis (1900-1971) was born near Smyrna in Asia Minor. His long and distinguished diplomatic career began in 1925: he was appointed Ambassador to the UK, a post which he held from 1957 to 1962. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. He famously opposed the Greek junta of the Colonels in a BBC radio broadcast in 1969. Roderick Beaton's biography, George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel, appeared in 2003.
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