George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel : a BiographyRoderick Beaton, Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History Language and Literature Roderick Beaton Yale University Press, 1.1.2003 - 512 sivua Poet, essayist, diarist, novelist, and diplomat, George Seferis brought about a revolution in the way people viewed his native Greece. Acclaimed for his thought-provoking lyric poetry, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. At the same time, he rose in the diplomatic corps to the position of Ambassador to Britain. This biography of Seferis provides insights into his work, life, and country. culture, draws on previously unknown sources to tell Seferis's story. He describes how Seferis occupied key diplomatic positions during periods of historic crisis before, during, and after World War II. He explores Seferis's service as Ambassador to London at a time when Greece and Great Britain were disputing the future of Cyprus, noting that some of Seferis's finest poetry was written about that troubled island. He analyses Seferis's literary production and his impact on Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller, and other British and American writers. Exploring the interplay between poet and diplomat, public and private, and poetry and politics in Seferis's life and career, this book should interest anyone interested in 20th-century Greek literature, culture, or history. |
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... writer , in all he wrote George Seferis bore authoritative and humane witness to the century into which he was born ( in ... writing in a living lan- guage whose successive phases can be traced back through more than three thousand years ...
... writer , in all he wrote George Seferis bore authoritative and humane witness to the century into which he was born ( in ... writing in a living lan- guage whose successive phases can be traced back through more than three thousand years ...
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... writing runs to well over two thousand items , in several languages , little has been done to examine what Seferis did in his professional career , how the experiences gained in that career affected his writing , or how both may be ...
... writing runs to well over two thousand items , in several languages , little has been done to examine what Seferis did in his professional career , how the experiences gained in that career affected his writing , or how both may be ...
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... writing it , I have taken a deliberate stand : this biography is not the story of ' Seferis ' the poet , or of ... writer who frequently adopted the con- fessional first person in his published work ; whose one completed novel , and many ...
... writing it , I have taken a deliberate stand : this biography is not the story of ' Seferis ' the poet , or of ... writer who frequently adopted the con- fessional first person in his published work ; whose one completed novel , and many ...
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... writing about him , lecturing about him , occasionally translating him , and for the last twenty - five years teaching him to university students in Britain . One of the greatest pleasures of writing Seferis's biography has been in ...
... writing about him , lecturing about him , occasionally translating him , and for the last twenty - five years teaching him to university students in Britain . One of the greatest pleasures of writing Seferis's biography has been in ...
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Aegina Anatolia Angelos Ankara April Aronis Athens August Averoff British Cairo Cistern Cypriot Cyprus Damaskinos Daskalopoulos dated December Despo diary diplomatic draft Durrell Edmund Keeley Eliot embassy English EOKA Estia exile February Foreign French friends George and Maro George Seferis George wrote George's Greece Greek government GS to Ioanna GS to Katsimbalis GS to Lou GS to Maro GS's Hellenism island Izmir Jacqueline January July June Kanellopoulos Kartalis Katsimbalis Korça Kostakis Kydathinaion Street later Lawrence Durrell letter literary Logbook London Lorenzatos Makarios Malanos March Metaxas Ministry months Moréas Mythistorema Nanos Valaoritis November October official Ottoman Papandreou Paris photographs poet poetry political Press prime minister published quoted Rex Warner S/Apost S/Kats S/Mal Savidis seems September Sikelianos Skala Smyrna Stratis Thalassinos summer T.S. Eliot Ta Nea Theotokas translation Tsatsos Tsouderos Turkish Venizelist Venizelos Vlachos weeks writing written Σεφέρη
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Sivu 25 - Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written.