Ritsos in Parentheses

Informationen zum Autor Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990) was a Greek poet who was imprisoned and exiled and had his works banned in his home country because of his Communist politics. His books include The Fourth Dimension and Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses (both Princeton). Edmund Keeley (1928–2022) was a distinguished translator of modern Greek poetry and professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Princeton University. Klappentext 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 here—Parentheses, 1946–47, Parentheses, 1950–61, and The Distant—document 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." Zusammenfassung 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 an

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Yannis Cole, Yannis Ritsos, Ritsos Yannis
• Con la collaborazione di: Edmund Keeley (Editore), Rosanna Warren (Editore), Edmund Keeley (Traduzione), Keeley Edmund (Traduzione)
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2015
• EAN: 9780691603391
• ISBN: 978-0-691-60339-1
• Pagine: 204
• Serie: Lockert Library of Poetry in T; Princeton Legacy Library; The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets