Author: Thomas McGrathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Selected Poems, 1938-1988
Author: Thomas McGrathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Selected Poems, 1938-1988
Author: Giannēs RitsosPublisher:
ISBN: 9780918526663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Yannis Ritsos, Selected Poems, 1938-1988
Author: Giannēs RitsosPublisher: Brockport, N.Y. : BOA Editions
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Yannis Ritsos is one of Greece's most prolific, distinguished and celebrated poets whose many honors include the Alfred de Vigny Award (France, 1975) and the Lenin Prize (U.S.S.R., 1977). "Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems 1938-1988" features more than 440 poems from 43 of Ritsos' short and long poems by the editors, an index of 117 of Ritsos' books of poetry, translation, fiction, essays and drama, and more than 25 illustrations based on Yannis Ritsos' celebrated paintings on rocks. The work of 17 translators, "Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems 1938-1988" is a monumental volume that generously represents 50 years of this gigantic poet's work.
Yannis Ritsos, Selected Poems
Author: Giannēs RitsosPublisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Yannis Ritsos, Selected Poems, 1938-1988
Author: Yannis RitsosPublisher: New American Translations
ISBN: 9780918526670
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
1991 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year--Choice. Friar and Mysiades deserve much credit for providing, in one volume, the first full-range sampling of this fecund, variegated, and highly original poet in English.--The New Republic
Yannis Ritsos
Author: Giannēs RitsosPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691019088
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos follows such distinguished predecessors as C. P. Cavafy and George Seferis in a dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The shorter poems gathered in this volume present what Ritsos calls "simple things" that turn out not to be simple at all. Here we find a world of subtle nuances, in which everyday events hide much that is threatening, oppressive, and spiritually vacuous--but the poems also provide lyrical and idyllic interludes, along with cunning re-creations of Greek mythology and history. This collection of Ritsos's work--perhaps most of all those poems written while he was in forced exile under the dictatorship of the Colonels--testifies to his just place among the major European poets of this century. The distinguished translator of modern Greek poetry Edmund Keeley has chosen for this anthology selections from seven of Ritsos's volumes of shorter poems written between 1946 and 1975. Two of these volumes are represented here in English versions for the first time, two others have been translated only sporadically, and the remaining three were first published in a bilingual edition now out of print (Ritsos in Parentheses). The collection thus covers thirty years of a poetic career that is the most prolific, and among the most honored, in Greece's modern history.
Subjects in Poetry
Author: Daniel BrownPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807176672
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Daniel Brown’s Subjects in Poetry is the first book to examine the broad and imposing topic of poetic subject matter, probing both what poems are about and how that influences the way they're made. It comprises one poet’s attempt to plumb the nature of his art, to ask how the selection of material remains a crucial yet unexplored area of poetic craft, and to suggest the vast range of possible subjects for poems. The book begins by venturing a novel definition of “subject,” derived from Robert Frost’s dictum that poetry constitutes an “art of having something to say.” Brown posits that a poem can say something by expressing, evoking, or addressing. He considers each of these ways-of-saying in turn, first defining it and then looking at poems in which it predominates. Brown next makes a wide-ranging case for the value of subjects to poems, poets, and the art of poetry, especially at a time when many poems appear subjectless. He concludes the book with practical guidance on finding subjects, improving them, and realizing their potential. Replete with thoughtful readings of poems both classic and contemporary, Subjects in Poetry should appeal to poets across all levels and readers interested in understanding the art and practice of poetry.
Diaries of Exile
Author: Yannis RitsosPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1935744585
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Yannis Ritsos is a poet whose writing life is entwined with the contemporary history of his homeland. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this volume, which presents a series of three diaries in poetry that Ritsos wrote between 1948 and 1950, during and just after the Greek Civil War, while a political prisoner first on the island of Limnos and then at the infamous camp on Makronisos. Even in this darkest of times, Ritsos dedicated his days to poetry, trusting in writing and in art as collective endeavors capable of resisting oppression and bringing people together across distance and time. These poems offer glimpses into the daily routines of life in exile, the quiet violence Ritsos and his fellow prisoners endured, the fluctuations in the prisoners’ sense of solidarity, and their struggle to maintain humanity through language. This moving volume justifies Ritsos’s reputation as one of the truly important poets in Greece’s modern literary history.
Collected Later Poems, 1988-2000
Author: Ronald Stuart ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is one of the major poets of the twentieth-century, the greatest Welsh poet since Dylan Thomas, and one of the finest religious poets in the English language. This substantial gathering of his late poems shows us the final flowering of a truly great poet still writing at the height of his powers in his 70s and 80s. It begins with his autobiographical sequence, The Echoes Return Slow, unavailable for many years, and also includes, Counterpoint, Mass for Hard Times, No Truce With the Furies, and his final collection, Residues.
Author: Bill Knott