Author: Kimon FriarPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Digte.
Modern Greek Poetry
Author: Kimon FriarPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Digte.
Folk Poetry of Modern Greece
Author: Roderick BeatonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521604208
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A wide-ranging study of popular poetry and songs from the end of the Byzantine Empire to the present.
Harsh Out of Tenderness
Author: John TaylorPublisher:
ISBN: 9780646815664
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Elias Petropoulos was the most controversial Greek writer of the twentieth century. Imprisoned three times during the Junta (1967-1974) and persecuted by Greek judges as late as the 1980s, this poet and "urban folklorist" produced a vast and groundbreaking oeuvre that continues to provoke extreme reactions from readers. Wielding his precise and provocative style on subject matter ranging from prison life, rebetika music, gay slang, traditional food and public hygiene, to the sociology of brothels, newspaper stands, moustaches, canes and gravestones, Petropoulos aggressively and rigorously challenged the narrow ways in which Greek culture was perceived.After arriving in Paris from the island of Samos in 1977, the American writer, critic and translator John Taylor tacked up a want ad in a Greek bookshop because he was seeking a collaborator for a translation project. Petropoulos, who emigrated to France in 1975, answered the want ad, and thus began a close working relationship that lasted until the author's death in 2003. This insider's portrait features translated excerpts of Petropoulos's writings, and discusses his ideas and methodology, woven together with touching reminiscences and observations about the man behind the sulphurous reputation. It is the first book to appear in English that deals so thoroughly and poetically with this enfant terrible of Modern Greek letters.
Voices of Modern Greece
Author: Constantine CavafyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691013829
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This anthology is composed of revised translations selected from five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Keeley and Sherrard during the 1960s and '70s. Poems chosen are those that translate most successfully into English and that are also representative of the best work of the original poets--C.P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, and Nikos Gatsos.
Neo-Hellene Poets
Author: Dionisios SolomosPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781723964121
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
The most extensive and most comprehensible anthology of modern Greek poetry in English.While many serious readers in Canada will have been exposed to the ancients, and to the works of some, high-profile modernists--like Cafavy, Seferis and, perhaps, even Ritsos --most modern Greek poetry has remained largely out of reach for English-speaking monoglots. But that is changing quickly, chiefly as the result of the efforts of one man. Enter Manolis Aligizakis, a Greek-Canadian poet of considerable lyrical achievements of his own. Quite apart from having published many volumes of his own much-celebrated poems, Manolis has, for years now, devoted himself to preparing high-quality and nuanced translations of the works of modern Greek poets. He has to this point given us his take mainly on the above-mentioned and better-known writers (for which we are all grateful). Now, however, he has graduated to a truly Heraclean undertaking, one that opens the door for English-speaking readers to the work of many highly respected Greek poets who, it is to be regretted, are essentially unknown outside their own country. Neo-Hellene Poets: An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry, 1750 - 2018 is a skeleton key to the poems of 60 Greek moderns whose writings, we can now easily see, deserve a wider readership. The deft and skilled translations that make up the Anthology are helpfully supplemented by brief but informative biographical profiles of the subject poets, putting them on the map for Englishspeaking readers in a way that has never been done before.
Modern Greek Literature
Author: Gregory NagyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135576688
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This collection examines major Greek authors from the early 19th century through the present day, spanning from romantic to post-modern authors, poets, and playwrights. The essays focus on intersections between oral and written traditions in nineteenth and twentieth century Greece. Major authors discussed included Solomos, Vizyenos, Papadiamantis, Seferis, and many others.
Ancient Greek Myth in Modern Greek Poetry
Author: Peter MackridgePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000892719
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Originally published in 1996, this volume contains essays by scholars, critics and translators and includes themes such as the myth in the Cretan Renaissance and the use of ancient myth by 19th and 20th Century poets. Some essays deal with individual mythical figures such as Odysseus, Orpheus, Prometheus and Aphrodite, while others deal with the problematic issue of the use of myth by Greek women poets. The discussion is completed by comparing attitudes to the ancient Greeks as embodied in English and modern Greek poetry.
Medieval and Modern Greek
Author: Robert BrowningPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521299787
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Traces the history of the Greek language from the immediately postclassical or Hellenistic period to the present day. In particular, the historical roots of modern Greek internal bilingualism are traced. First published by Hutchinson in 1969, the work has been substantially revised and updated.
Greek Poetry, from Homer to Seferis
Author: Constantine Athanasius TrypanisPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226813165
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
The King of Asine
Author: George SeferisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description