George Seferis

{This is a} translation worthy of Seferis, which is to praise it as highly as it could be praised. -- Archibald MacLeish.

Collected Poems

Days of 1945-1951

A Poet's Journal

Complete Poems

Poems

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 Seferis: 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.

Collected Poems - Revised Edition

George Seferis is regarded as one of the greatest poets. This volume is the first comprehensive collection of his poetry to appear in the United States. It has been translated from the Greek by Rex Warner, distinguished classicist, novelist and translator of Euripides. -- Book jacket.

Selections from the notebooks Seferis kept during his diplomatic postings in the region. Covers the years 1941-44 and 1953-56.

A Levant Journal

Selected Poems of George Seferis

Collected Poems, 1924-55

Three Secret Poems

George Seferis: Collected Poems, 1924-1965

Poems [by] George Seferis [psud.] Translated from the Greek, by Rex Warner

In 1967, George Seferis decided the time had finally come to publish at least a portion of his journals. As he was preparing his manuscript for the printer, however, the political climate in Greece became increasingly unpropitious for such an undertaking. Soon he did not feel free to publish in his own country, and in those ominous days there were even some fears for the safety of his unpublished manuscripts. Shortly before his death on September 20, 1971, he entrusted a copy of the journal to his friend Athan Anagnostopoulos with the request that he translate it, publish it, and that Walter Kaiser write the introduction for American readers.

Two Letters from Greece ; [notes by Matthew Jennett].

George Seferis to Henry Miller

By George Seferis Pseud. Translated from the Greek by Rex Warner

This new bilingual edition of George Seferis: Collected Poems both supplements and revises the two earlier editions published in 1967 and 1969. It presents for the first time the complete Notes for a 'Week,' " Three Secret Poems, and three later poems that were not collected by the poet himself but whose English translation he authorized during his lifetime. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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