Ritsos in Parentheses
Yannis Ritsos
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Description for Ritsos in Parentheses
Hardback. Translator(s): Keeley, Edmund. Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
Perhaps Greece's most important poet, 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 here--Parentheses, 1946-47, Parentheses, 1950-61, and The Distant, 1975--represent a thirty year poetic journey and a developing sensibility that link the poet's subtler perceptions at different moments of his maturity. In his introduction to the poems, and as an explanation of the book's title, Edmund Keeley writes: The two signs of the parenthesis are like cupped hands facing each other across a distance, hands that ... Read more
Perhaps Greece's most important poet, 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 here--Parentheses, 1946-47, Parentheses, 1950-61, and The Distant, 1975--represent a thirty year poetic journey and a developing sensibility that link the poet's subtler perceptions at different moments of his maturity. In his introduction to the poems, and as an explanation of the book's title, Edmund Keeley writes: The two signs of the parenthesis are like cupped hands facing each other across a distance, hands that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
Condition
New
Weight
456 g
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691632735
SKU
V9780691632735
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