1967 GEORGE SEFERIS SIGNED DATED COLLECTED POEMS 1924-1955 NOBEL PRIZE LIT 1963

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1967 GEORGE SEFERIS SIGNED DATED COLLECTED POEMS 1924-1955 NOBEL PRIZE LIT 1963:
$285.00

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Signed and dated by GeorgeSeferis, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. Greek & Englishparallel text.

“COLLECTED POEMS 1924-1955” by George Seferis. Translated fromthe Greek, edited, and introduced by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

SIGNED IN GREEK BY GEORGESEFERIS ON THE TITLE PAGE, WITH A LINE DRAWN THROUGH HIS ENGLISH NAME, ANDDATED “1967”.

Signed on the title page byEdmund Keeley.

Lovely illustration frontispiece from a painting by YannisMoralis, which painting appeared in George Seferis’ Collected Poems publishedin Greek in Athens by Icaros.

Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NewJersey, 1967. First Edition.

521 pristine pages, including the Introduction by Keeleyand Sherrard. The poems are printed inGreek on the left pages and English on the right in parallel throughout. Thereare detailed notes at the end of the book, giving readers important backgroundinformation. Bright, clean endpapers,front and back. No bookplates, No other signatures, No marks.

This is a lovely book, exquisitely bound with very slightwear – please see our photos. Measures 9-1/2” tall x 6-1/2” wide x 1-1/2” thickor 24.1, 16.5, 3.8cm.

Unclipped dust jacket priced at $10.00. The dust jacket hasvery slight wear and is now in a new, clear protective mylar cover, which isremoveable with ease.

Edmund Keeley (born 1928) is a prize-winning novelist, translator, andessayist, a poet, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English atPrinceton University. He is a noted expert on Greek poets C. P. Cavafy, GeorgeSeferis, Odysseus Elytis and Yannis Ritsos, and on post-Second World War Greekhistory.

George Seferis (1900 – 1971), wasa Greek poet, author, translator, and diplomat. He was one of the mostimportant Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. Seferis was a career diplomat in the GreekForeign Service, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to the UnitedKingdom from 1957 to 1962. In 1963,Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature \"for his eminentlyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world ofculture.\" Seferis was the first Greek to receive the Nobel Prize forLiterature. In 1936, Seferis published a translation of T. S. Eliot\'s The WasteLand. In 1914, Seferis and his family moved to Athens. He studied law at theSorbonne in Paris and entered diplomatic service in 1925. Seferis was exiledfrom Smyrna when it was claimed by Turkey; he subsequently spent many yearsliving and working outside of Greece. Before World War II, he was posted in Englandand Albania. During the war he moved with the Free Greek Government to Egypt,South Africa, and Italy. After the war, his diplomatic posts included Ankara,London, Lebanon, and Syria. Seferis served as Royal Greek Ambassador to theUnited Kingdom from 1957 to 1961. In 1962 he retired and moved to Athens.

Wandering and exile are present in Seferis’s poetry.Seferis’ work is attuned to the history of Greece—the Nobel Prize committeerecognized him as a “representative Hellenic poet.” His poetry often intertwinescontemporary speech and experience with Homeric myth, and many of his poemsdepict the landscape of the Mediterranean. In their foreword to George Seferis:Collected Poems (1995), translators Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard noted:“The distinguishing attribute of Seferis’s genius—one that he shares with Yeatsand Eliot—was always his ability to make out of a local politics, out of apersonal history or mythology, some sort of general statement or metaphor.” George Seferis was an Elected HonoraryForeign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and became anHonorary Fellow of the Modern Language Association.

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