Yannis Ritsos, Selected Poems
Author | : Giannēs Ritsos |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Giannēs Ritsos |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Giannēs Ritsos |
Publisher | : Brockport, N.Y. : BOA Editions |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Yannis Ritsos is one of Greece's most prolific, distinguished and celebrated poets whose many honors include the Alfred de Vigny Award (France, 1975) and the Lenin Prize (U.S.S.R., 1977). "Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems 1938-1988" features more than 440 poems from 43 of Ritsos' short and long poems by the editors, an index of 117 of Ritsos' books of poetry, translation, fiction, essays and drama, and more than 25 illustrations based on Yannis Ritsos' celebrated paintings on rocks. The work of 17 translators, "Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems 1938-1988" is a monumental volume that generously represents 50 years of this gigantic poet's work.
Author | : Giannēs Ritsos |
Publisher | : Brockport, N.Y. : BOA Editions |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Yannis Ritsos is one of Greece's most prolific, distinguished and celebrated poets whose many honors include the Alfred de Vigny Award (France, 1975) and the Lenin Prize (U.S.S.R., 1977). "Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems 1938-1988" features more than 440 poems from 43 of Ritsos' short and long poems by the editors, an index of 117 of Ritsos' books of poetry, translation, fiction, essays and drama, and more than 25 illustrations based on Yannis Ritsos' celebrated paintings on rocks. The work of 17 translators, "Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems 1938-1988" is a monumental volume that generously represents 50 years of this gigantic poet's work.
Author | : Giannēs Ritsos |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1991-03-21 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0691019088 |
The celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos follows such distinguished predecessors as C. P. Cavafy and George Seferis in a dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The shorter poems gathered in this volume present what Ritsos calls "simple things" that turn out not to be simple at all. Here we find a world of subtle nuances, in which everyday events hide much that is threatening, oppressive, and spiritually vacuous--but the poems also provide lyrical and idyllic interludes, along with cunning re-creations of Greek mythology and history. This collection of Ritsos's work--perhaps most of all those poems written while he was in forced exile under the dictatorship of the Colonels--testifies to his just place among the major European poets of this century. The distinguished translator of modern Greek poetry Edmund Keeley has chosen for this anthology selections from seven of Ritsos's volumes of shorter poems written between 1946 and 1975. Two of these volumes are represented here in English versions for the first time, two others have been translated only sporadically, and the remaining three were first published in a bilingual edition now out of print (Ritsos in Parentheses). The collection thus covers thirty years of a poetic career that is the most prolific, and among the most honored, in Greece's modern history.
Author | : Giannēs Ritsos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yannis Ritsos |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-01-08 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1935744585 |
Yannis Ritsos is a poet whose writing life is entwined with the contemporary history of his homeland. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this volume, which presents a series of three diaries in poetry that Ritsos wrote between 1948 and 1950, during and just after the Greek Civil War, while a political prisoner first on the island of Limnos and then at the infamous camp on Makronisos. Even in this darkest of times, Ritsos dedicated his days to poetry, trusting in writing and in art as collective endeavors capable of resisting oppression and bringing people together across distance and time. These poems offer glimpses into the daily routines of life in exile, the quiet violence Ritsos and his fellow prisoners endured, the fluctuations in the prisoners’ sense of solidarity, and their struggle to maintain humanity through language. This moving volume justifies Ritsos’s reputation as one of the truly important poets in Greece’s modern literary history.
Author | : Giannēs Ritsos |
Publisher | : New York : Ecco Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Giannēs Ritsos |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 1993-06-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0691024650 |
In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, "Moonlight Sonata." Ritsos, rightly, regarded the The Fourth Dimension as his finest achievement. It is now presented to English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety. From "Philoctetes" All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about heroes. Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep, slipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hall where glasses and voices sparkled, and the veil of an unseen dancer rippled silently like a diaphanous, whirling wall between life and death. This throbbing our childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shields etched on white walls by slow moonlight.