George Seferis

by Keeley, Edmund

• ISBN13: 9780691014913
• ISBN10: 0691014914
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-07-03
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgement
The angel...	p. 3
Still one more well inside a cave...	p. 4
I woke with this marble head in my hands...	p. 5
And a soul/if it is to know itself...	p. 6
We didn't know them...	p. 8
The garden with its fountains in the rain...	p. 9
Westward the sea mergers with a mountain range...	p. 10
What are they after, our souls, travelling...	p. 12
The harbour is old, I can't wait any longer...	p. 13
Our country is closed in, all mountains...	p. 14
Sometimes your blood froze like the moon...	p. 15
Three rocks, a few burnt pines, a lone chapel...	p. 16
Dolphins banners and the sound of cannons...	p. 17
Three red pigeons in the light...	p. 18
Sleep wrapped you in green leaves like a tree...	p. 19
On the track, once more on the track...	p. 20
Now that you are leaving...	p. 21
I regret having let a broad river slip...	p. 22
Even if the wind blows it doesn't cool us...	p. 23
In my breast the wound opens again...	p. 24
We who set out on this pilgrimage...	p. 25
So very much having passed before our eyes...	p. 26
A little farther...	p. 27
Here end the works of the sea, the works of love...	p. 28
Santorini	p. 31
Mycenae	p. 33
Letter of Mathios Paskalis	p. 39
Syngrou Avenue, 1930	p. 41
Reflections on a Foreign Line of Verse	p. 42
Sixteen Haiku	p. 44
This body that hoped to flower like a branch...	p. 48
Flight	p. 49
Description	p. 50
Sirocco 7 Levante	p. 51
In the Manner of G. S.	p. 52
The Old Man	p. 54
Hampstead	p. 59
Psychology	p. 61
All Things Pass Away	p. 62
Fires of St John	p. 63
Nijinsky	p. 65
Mr. Stratis Thalassinos Describes a Man	p. 67
Mr. Stratis Thalassinos Describes a Man: Child	p. 68
Mr. Stratis Thalassinos Describes a Man: Adolescent	p. 69
Mr. Stratis Thalassinos Describes a Man: Young Man	p. 71
Mr. Stratis Thalassinos Describes a Man: Man	p. 73
Notes for a 'Week': Monday	p. 76
Notes for a 'Week': Tuesday	p. 77
Notes for a 'Week': Wednesday	p. 79
Notes for a 'Week': Thursday	p. 81
Notes for a 'Week': Friday	p. 83
Notes for a 'Week': Saturday	p. 84
Notes for a 'Week': Sunday	p. 86
A Word for Summer	p. 89
Epiphany, 1937	p. 92
Raven	p. 94
Flowers of the rock facing the green sea...	p. 96
The warm water reminds me each morning...	p. 97
Epitaph	p. 98
Between two bitter moments...	p. 99
In the sea caves...	p. 100
Stop looking for the sea...	p. 101
Mathios Paskalis Among the Roses	p. 105
Fine Autumn Morning	p. 107
Piazza San Niccolo	p. 109
Our Sun	p. 111
The Return of the Exile	p. 113
The Container of the Uncontainable	p. 115
Interlude of Joy	p. 116
The Leaf of the Poplar	p. 117
Solidarity	p. 118
The Last Day	p. 120
Spring A.D.	p. 122
The Jasmine	p. 125
Narration	p. 126
Morning	p. 128
Les Anges Sont Blancs	p. 129
The Sentence to Oblivion	p. 132
The King of Asini	p. 134
Days of June '41	p. 139
Postscript	p. 140
The Figure of Fate	p. 141
Kerk Str. Oost, Pretoria, Transvaal	p. 143
Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi	p. 144
An Old Man on the River Bank	p. 146
Stratis Thalassinos on the Dead Sea	p. 148
Calligraphy	p. 151
Days of April '43	p. 152
Here Among the Bones	p. 153
Last Stop	p. 154
'Thrush'I: The houses I had they took away...	p. 161
'Thrush'II: I saw him yesterday...	p. 163
'Thrush'III: This wood that cooled my forehead...	p. 167
Agianapa I	p. 173
Dream	p. 174
Details on Cyprus	p. 175
In the Goddess's Name I Summon You...	p. 176
Helen	p. 177
Memory I	p. 180
The Demon of Fornication	p. 182
Three Mules	p. 185
Pentheus	p. 187
Memory II	p. 188
Salamis in Cyprus	p. 190
Euripides the Athenian	p. 193
Engomi	p. 194
On a Ray of Winter Light	p. 199
On Stage	p. 202
Summer Solstice	p. 206
Letter to Rex Warner	p. 217
The Cats of St Nicholas	p. 220
'On Aspalathoi...'	p. 223
Appendix: Rhymed Poems
Turning Point	p. 231
Slowly You Spoke	p. 232
The Sorrowing Girl	p. 233
Automobile	p. 234
Denial	p. 235
The Companions in Hades	p. 236
Fog	p. 237
The Mood of a Day	p. 239
Rocket	p. 241
Rhyme	p. 243
Erotikos Logos	p. 247
The Cistern	p. 255
Pantoum	p. 263
Crickets	p. 265
Actors, Middle East	p. 266
Agianapa II	p. 267
In the Kyrenia District	p. 268
Pedlar from Sidon	p. 271
Bibliographical Note	p. 273
Notes	p. 277
Biographical Data	p. 291
Index of Titles	p. 293
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