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Yannis Ritsos

Yannis Ritsos
  • Author: Giannēs Ritsos
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN: 9780691019086
  • Category: Poetry
  • Page: 238
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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.

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European Writers: George Seferis to Yannis Ritsos
Language: en
Pages:

European Writers: George Seferis to Yannis Ritsos

Authors: George Stade
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA

Covers writers who have made significant contributions to European literature. Includes in-depth critical and biographical analysis.
Best Words, Best Order
Language: en
Pages: 398

Best Words, Best Order

Authors: S. Dobyns
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-30 - Publisher: Springer

In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and writers through poetry's mysterious
Yannis Ritsos, Selected Poems, 1938-1988
Language: en
Pages: 486

Yannis Ritsos, Selected Poems, 1938-1988

Authors: Yannis Ritsos, Giannēs Ritsos, Athan Anagnostopoulos
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Brockport, N.Y. : BOA Editions

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,
Gods and Mortals
Language: en
Pages: 320

Gods and Mortals

Authors: Nina Kossman
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03-22 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

For centuries, poets have looked into the mirror of classical myth to show us the many ways our emotional lives are still reflected in the ancient stories of heroism, hubris, transformation, and loss that myths so eloquently tell. Now, in Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths, we have
Kassandra and the Censors
Language: en
Pages: 328

Kassandra and the Censors

Authors: Karen Van Dyck
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-31 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

In this pioneering study of contemporary Greek poetry, Karen Van Dyck investigates modernist and postmodernist poetics at the edge of Europe. She traces the influential role of Greek women writers back to the sexual politics of censorship under the dictatorship (1967-1974). Reading the effects of censorship—in cartoons, the dictator's speeches,

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