George Seferis: Collected Poems - Revised Edition

✍ Scribed by George Seferis (editor); Edmund Keeley (editor); Philip Sherrard (editor)

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Series: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation; 42
• Edition: Revised
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition, George Seferis: Collected Poems (expanded edition, 1981). Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, George Seferis (1900-71) has long been recognized as a major international figure, and Keeley and Sherrard are his ideal translators. They create, in the words of Archibald MacLeish, a "translation worthy of Seferis, which is to praise it as highly as it could be praised."

Although Seferis was preoccupied with his tradition as few other poets of the same generation were with theirs, and although he was actively engaged in the immediate political aspirations of his nation, his value for readers lies in what he made of this preoccupation and this engagement in fashioning a broad poetic vision. He is also known for his stylistic purity, which allows no embellishment beyond that necessary for precise yet rich poetic statement.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Foreword
Acknowledgement
Mythistorema
1 The angel
2 Still one more well insideacave
3 Iwoke with this marble head in my hands
4 Andasoul / if it is to know itself
5 We didn’t know them
6 The garden with its fountains in the rain
7 Westward the sea merges withamountain range
8 What are they after, our souls, travelling
9 The harbour is old, Ican’t wait any longer
10 Our country is closed in, all mountains
11 Sometimes your blood froze like themoon
12 Three rocks,afew burnt pines,alone chapel
13 Dolphins banners and the sound of cannons
14 Three red pigeons in the light
15 Sleep wrapped you in green leaves likeatree
16 On the track, once more on the track
17 Now that you are leaving
18 Iregret having letabroad river slip
19 Even if the wind blows it doesn’t coolus
20 In my breast the wound opens again
21 We who set out on this pilgrimage
22 So very much having passed before our eyes
23 Alittle farther
24 Here end the works of the sea, the worksof love
Gymnopaidia
I Santorini
II Mycenae
Book of Exercises
Poems Given
Letter of Mathios Paskalis
Syngrou Avenue, 1930
Reflections ona Foreign Line of Verse
Sixteen Haiku
This body that hoped to flower likeabranch
Flight
Description
Sirocco 7 Levante
In the Manner of G. S
The Old Man
Mr Stratis Thalassinos
Five Poems
I Hampstead
II Psychology
III All Things Pass Away
IV Fires of St John
V Nijinsky
Mr Stratis Thalassinos Describesa Man
1
2 Child
3 Adolescent
4 Young Man
5 Man
Notes fora‘Week’
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Sketches fora Summer
A Word for Summer
Epiphany, 1937
Raven
Flowers of the rock facing the green sea
The warm water reminds me each morning
Epitaph
Between two bitter moments
In the sea caves
Stop looking for the sea
Logbook I
Mathios Paskalis Among the Roses
Fine Autumn Morning
Piazza San Niccolo
Our Sun
The Returnof the Exile
The Containerof the Uncontainable
Interludeof Joy
The Leaf of the Poplar
Solidarity
The Last Day
Spring A.D
The Jasmine
Narration
Morning
Les Anges Sont Blancs
The Sentence to Oblivion
The King of Asini
Logbook II
Days ofjune ’41
Postscript
The Figure of Fate
Kerk Str. Oost, Pretoria, Transvaal
Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi
An Old Man on the River Bank
Stratis Thalassinos on the Dead Sea
Calligraphy
Days of April ’43
Here Among the Bones
Last Stop
‘Thrush’
I The houses Ihad they took aw ay
II Isaw him yesterday
III This wood that cooled my forehead
Logbook III
Agianapal
Dream
Details on Cyprus
In the Goddess’s Name I Summon You
Helen
Memory I
The Demonof Fornication
Three Mules
Pentheus
Memory II
Salamis in Cyprus
Euripides the Athenian
Engomi
Three Secret Poems
Ona Rayof Winter Light
On Stage
Summer Solstice
From Book of Exercises II
Letter to Rex Wamer
The Catsof St Nicholas
‘On Aspalathoi... ’
Appendix : Rhymed Poems
Turning Point
Shells, Clouds
Turning Point
Slowly You Spoke
The Sorrowing Girl
Automobile
Denial
The Companions in Hades
Fog
The Moodofa Day
Rocket
Rhyme
Erotikos Logos
The Cistern
From Book of Exercises
Pantoum
From Logbook II
Crickets
Actors, Middle East
From Logbook III
Agianapa II
In the Kyrenia District
Pedlar from Sidon
Bibliographical Note
Notes
Biographical Data
Index of Titles