[{"id":82917,"title":"A Greek Quintet","subtitle":"Poems","description":"During this century the Greek world has produced a wealth of poetry that is as astonishing in its scope as it is in its vigour; and this anthology brings together a selection from the works of the five poets who may be said to take pride οf place in substantiating this achievement. Two of them (George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis) are Nobel Laureates, Cavafy is certainly one of the most ubiquitous poets of our times, the oracular grandeur of Angelos Sikelianos companions him with W. Β. Yeats, while Nikos Gatsos, less known outside Greece, is a fine lyrical poet and song writer . \u003cbr\u003eThe poems in this selection are for the most part taken from the translators' more ample volumes of translations of Greek poetry, namely, their \"George Seferis: Collected poems\", of which Peter Levi wrote,\"I doubt if we shall ever see translations as wonderfully full of Seferis as these\"; their \"C. Ρ. Cavafy: Collected poems\", described by Stephen Spender as \"a prayer fulfilled\"; their \"Angelos Sikelianos: Selected poems\", and their \"Odysseus Elytis: Selected poems\". They have been chosen as those that translate most successfully intο English and at the same time are representative of the best work of the original poets. \u003cbr\u003e\"The arrival of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard οn the modern Greek translation scene marks quite a definite and definative stage of a process; the excellence of their work is really worthy of recognition ...\" (Lawrence Durrell, The New York Times Book Review). ","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84951.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-01-9","isbn13":"978-960-7120-01-4","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":204,"publication_year":2000,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"10.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84951,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/a-greek-quintet.json"},{"id":82928,"title":"On the Greek Style","subtitle":"Selected Essays in Poetry and Hellenism","description":"Τhis is the first collection of the essays of George Seferis to be published in English. The selection was made by Seferis himself, drawing upon his prose work written over a period of thirty years. Seferis was a classicist and a humanist, a man of modern sensibility imbued with a deep respect for Mediterranean tradition. He is present iη all these aspects in his essays. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, the citation spoke of \"his eminent lyrical writings inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture\". Hellenism for Seferis is an enduring style, as alive and as meaningful today as when Homer and Pericles walked the roads of Greece. \"If we want to understand the ancient Greeks,\" Seferis writes, \"it is always into the soul of our own people that we should Iook.\" \u003cbr\u003eΑ central group of essays, then, is concerned with the spirit of Hellenism as it continues to manifest itself iη Greek painting, poetry, history, landscape, and religion. But of equal interest are the essays that explore international themes: art and \"engagement\"; the poetry of Eliot and Cavafy; the theatre of Pirandello; and the role of the artist in the modern world. Admirers of Seferis's poetry will take particular pleasure iη his introduction to his Iong poem \"The Thrush\", which is followed in this edition by the poem itself. \u003cbr\u003eVarious and occasional as these essays are, they are united by the extraordinary sensibility of their author. And they are to be savoured equally for their wisdom, subtlety, and impeccable style. \u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84962.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-03-5","isbn13":"978-960-7120-03-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":197,"publication_year":2000,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"10.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84962,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/on-the-greek-style.json"},{"id":82933,"title":"The Drama of Quality","subtitle":"Selected Essays","description":"Zissimos Lorenzatos (1915-2004), during his last years, was generally acknowledged to be the most important man of letters in Greece. An essayist, poet and thinker, he was perhaps the last of his generation with a vision that is both deeply religious and humane. His profound knowledge of European literature and thought, and his familiarity with the writings and philosophy of the East, along with his thorough assimilation of the long Greek tradition, enabled him to explore, with unusual insight, the spirit both of Europe and of modern Greece.\u003cbr\u003eThis second selection of his essays to be published in English includes his studies on the Greek writers Papadiamandis, Sikelianos and Capetanakis, and on the architect Dimitris Pikionis; and it concludes with a lengthy and penetrating discussion of the American poet Ezra Pound, who called himself the \"apostle of Europe\", and who visited Greece and met Lorenzatos in 1965.\u003cbr\u003eAs Dr David Ricks writes of these essays in his foreword: \"No-one who aspires to understand modern Greek culture should ignore them\".","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84967.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-16-7","isbn13":"978-960-7120-16-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":220,"publication_year":2000,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"14.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84967,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-drama-of-quality.json"}]