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This anthology is composed of revised translations selected from five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Keeley and Sherrard during the 1960s and '70s. Poems chosen are those that translate most successfully into English and that are also representative of the best work of the original poets--C.P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, and Nikos Gatsos.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #6903764 in Books
• Published on: 1981-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 204 pages

Review
Adolescence Of Day by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Aegean Melancholy by Odysseus Alepoudeli
The Age Of Blue Memory by Odysseus Alepoudeli
All Day Long We Walked In The Fields by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Anniversary by Odysseus Alepoudeli
The Autopsy by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Beauty And The Illiterate by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Body Of Summer by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Burnished Day, Conch Of The Voice by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Drinking The Sun Of Corinth by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Form Of Boeotia by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Helen by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Heroic And Elegiac Song For Lost 2nd Lieutenant: 1 by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Heroic And Elegiac Song For Lost 2nd Lieutenant: 10 by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Heroic And Elegiac Song For Lost 2nd Lieutenant: 13 by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Heroic And Elegiac Song For Lost 2nd Lieutenant: 3 by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Heroic And Elegiac Song For Lost 2nd Lieutenant: 4 by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Heroic And Elegiac Song For Lost 2nd Lieutenant: 6 by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Heroic And Elegiac Song For Lost 2nd Lieutenant: 8 by Odysseus Alepoudeli
I Lived The Beloved Name by Odysseus Alepoudeli
I No Longer Know The Night by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Laconic by Odysseus Alepoudeli
The Mad Pomegranate Tree by Odysseus Alepoudeli
Marina Of The Rocks by Odysseus Alepoudeli
The Sleep Of The Brave by Odysseus Alepoudeli
This Wind That Loiters by Odysseus Alepoudeli
With What Stones, What Blood, And What Iron by Odysseus Alepoudeli
The Afternoon Sun by Constantine P. Cavafy
Alexandrian Kings by Constantine P. Cavafy
As Much As You Can (2) by Constantine P. Cavafy
Body, Remember by Constantine P. Cavafy
Che Fece - Il Gran Rifiuto by Constantine P. Cavafy
The City by Constantine P. Cavafy
Dareios by Constantine P. Cavafy
Exiles by Constantine P. Cavafy
The Footsteps by Constantine P. Cavafy
For Ammonis, Who Died At 29, In 610 by Constantine P. Cavafy
From The School Of The Renowned Philosopher by Constantine P. Cavafy
The God Abandons Antony by Constantine P. Cavafy
Half An Hour by Constantine P. Cavafy
Hidden Things by Constantine P. Cavafy
The Ides Of March by Constantine P. Cavafy
In A Large Greek Colony, 200 B.c. by Constantine P. Cavafy
In A Township Of Asia Minor by Constantine P. Cavafy
In Sparta by Constantine P. Cavafy
In The Evening by Constantine P. Cavafy
In The Year 200 B.c. by Constantine P. Cavafy
Ionic by Constantine P. Cavafy
Ithaka by Constantine P. Cavafy
Kaisarion by Constantine P. Cavafy
Longings by Constantine P. Cavafy
Myris: Alexandria, A.d. 340 by Constantine P. Cavafy
On The Outskirts Of Antioch by Constantine P. Cavafy
One Of Their Gods by Constantine P. Cavafy
Philhellene by Constantine P. Cavafy
A Prince From Western Libya by Constantine P. Cavafy
The Satrapy by Constantine P. Cavafy
Since Nine O'clock by Constantine P. Cavafy
Theodotos by Constantine P. Cavafy
Thermopylae by Constantine P. Cavafy
To Have Taken The Trouble by Constantine P. Cavafy
Trojans by Constantine P. Cavafy
Waiting For The Barbarians by Constantine P. Cavafy
The Windows by Constantine P. Cavafy
Amorgos. To A Green Star: 1 by Nikos Gatsos
Amorgos. To A Green Star: 2 by Nikos Gatsos
Amorgos. To A Green Star: 3 by Nikos Gatsos
Amorgos. To A Green Star: 4 by Nikos Gatsos
Amorgos. To A Green Star: 5 by Nikos Gatsos
Amorgos. To A Green Star: 6 by Nikos Gatsos
The Black Sun by Nikos Gatsos
Death And The Knight (1513) by Nikos Gatsos
Evening At Colonos by Nikos Gatsos
The Myrtle Tree by Nikos Gatsos
We Who Are Left by Nikos Gatsos
Epiphany, 1937 by George Seferis
Euripides The Athenian by George Seferis
Helen by George Seferis
In The Manner Of G.s. by George Seferis
Interlude Of Joy by George Seferis
The King Of Asini by George Seferis
The Last Day by George Seferis
Last Stop by George Seferis
Les Anges Sont Blancs by George Seferis
Memory I. And There Was No More Sea by George Seferis
Memory Ii: Ephesus by George Seferis
Mythistorema: 1 by George Seferis
Mythistorema: 15 by George Seferis
Mythistorema: 16 by George Seferis
Mythistorema: 22 by George Seferis
Mythistorema: 3 by George Seferis
Mythistorema: 4 by George Seferis
Mythistorema: 5 by George Seferis
Mythistorema: 9 by George Seferis
Narration by George Seferis
An Old Man On The River Bank by George Seferis
Our Sun by George Seferis
Stratis Thalassinos Among The Agapanthi by George Seferis
Three Secret Poems: I.4 by George Seferis
Three Secret Poems: I.7 by George Seferis
Three Secret Poems: Ii.6 by George Seferis
Three Secret Poems: Iii.14 by George Seferis
Agraphon by Angelos Sikelianos
Because I Deeply Praised by Angelos Sikelianos
Caique by Angelos Sikelianos
Daedalus by Angelos Sikelianos
Doric by Angelos Sikelianos
The First Rain by Angelos Sikelianos
Letter Iv by Angelos Sikelianos
The Mother Of Dante by Angelos Sikelianos
On Acrocorinth by Angelos Sikelianos
Pan by Angelos Sikelianos
Rehearsing For Death by Angelos Sikelianos
The Sacred Way by Angelos Sikelianos
Sparta by Angelos Sikelianos
The Suicide Of Atzesivano Disciple Of Buddha by Angelos Sikelianos
Thalero by Angelos Sikelianos
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Language Notes
Text: English, Greek (translation)