Ritsos in Parentheses (eBook)

Yannis Ritsos (Autor)

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2015
204 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7088-2 (ISBN)

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Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Academy of American PoetsA bilingual edition of three major poetry collections by one of the most important Greek poets of the twentieth centuryOne of the most prolific and popular of modern Greek poets, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The three volumes of Ritsos's poetry translated hereParentheses, 194647, Parentheses, 195061, and The Distantdocument a three-decade poetic journey that reveals the evolution of the poet's sensibility. This bilingual edition also features an insightful introduction from translator Edmund Keeley, whom Paul Muldoon has called ';the gold standard in translators of Greek poetry.'

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Übersetzer: Edmund Keeley
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Adjective • aisle • Alfred de Vigny • Allusion • Ambiguity • anonymity • Apathy • Bathroom • blacksmith • Career • chandelier • Charwoman • City of • Clothing • cripple • Desk • Dictatorship • Disease • Edmund Keeley • entrance hall • Epitaphios (liturgical) • Everyday life • evocation • Eyelash • eyelid • Fairy tale • Figure of Speech • Fireplace • forehead • foreshadowing • Furniture • Futility (poem) • Grater • halpern • handkerchief • Hatpin • Humidity • iconostasis • Incense • Indication (medicine) • In Parenthesis • Irony • Kozani • laughter • Lenin Prize • Leros • Library of Congress • Lighting • Long poem • mary ann caws • Mikis Theodorakis • Monemvasia • Ms. • napkin • Narration • Northern Greece • On the Mountain • Papadopoulos • paper bag • Parnitha • perpetual motion • Philip Sherrard • Poetry • Propaganda • Protagonist • Pseudonym • rhetoric • Robbery • Self-Sufficiency • sensibility • sentimentality • shawl • Shirt • Shoulder to Shoulder • stairs • stanza • subtraction • Suggestion • Symbolism (arts) • tablecloth • The American Poetry Review • The Black Stone • The Bread • The Great Night • The Iowa Review • The Last Leaf • Thermometer • Tuberculosis • Tudor Arghezi • Two Old Men • Typing • Vision of the Future • washing • World War II • wreath • wrinkle
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7088-7 / 1400870887
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7088-2 / 9781400870882