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.
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