Author: SIKELIANOS, ANGELOS
Title: Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems
Description: Evvia, Greece, Denise Harvey. 1996, 2nd Edition. (ISBN: 9789607120120) Soft cover. Book, Romyosine # Bilingual text] "Angelos Sikelianos (1884-1951) is generally recognized as the most important Greek poet between Cavafy and Seferis. This selection of his poetry, first published by Princeton University Press almost thirty years ago, still remains the only collection in English in volume form; both the English and Greek texts of this present edition have been amended. Included in here are works from the full range of the poet's career and in his several voices - those of the lyricist, the narrator, the seer.The volume also offers samples of the poet's varied forms, from sonnets to longer narrative and reflective poems, each rendered in a metrical equivalent. An introduction outlines the principal stages of the poet's development as thinker and craftsman in relation to the particular translations included. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. xx.150p. New Book from Greece.

Keywords: 9789607120120 Books in Modern Greek Poetry Sikelianos