Poet, diplomat, and literary critic George Seferis (1900-1971) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963. He is known to most readers as a myth-loving modernist. Book of Exercises II - a multi-genre volume, containing political, satiric, erotic, panegyric, and calligraphic poems drawn from the poet''s diaries between 1931 to 1971 - opens up a hitherto unknown Seferis to English-language readers, offering a closer look at his creative process, opinions, and personal life.
Often compared during his lifetime to T.S. Eliot, whose work he translated and introduced to Greece, George Seferis is noted for his spare, laconic, dense and allusive verse in the Modernist idiom of the first half of the twentieth century. At once intensely Greek and a cosmopolitan of his time (he was a career-diplomat as well as a poet), Seferis better than any other writer expresses the dilemma experienced by his countrymen then and now: how to be at once Greek and modern. The translations that make up this volume are the fruit of more than forty years, and many are published here for the first time.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, George Seferis (1900-71) has long been recognized as a major international figure. This edition presents the translations of George Seferis' poems in English.
The collected works of the the veteran Greek diplomat and scholar who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1963.
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