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2.101     A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000. Selected and Edited by: Peter Bien, Peter Constantine, Edmund Keeley, Karen Van Dyck. Introduction by Peter Bien. A Note on Translation by Karen Van Dyck. Kimon Friar’s translations edited by Matthew Jennett. River Vale, NJ: Cosmos Publishing Co., 2004. Bilingual edition. xxviii, 993 p.
ISBN 1932455000; 9781932455007
Peter Bien: “Introduction” (pp. xxv-xxvi); Karen Van Dyck: “A Note on Translation” (pp. xxvii-xxviii); The Poems (pp. 1-939); Biographies of Editors (p. 941); Alphabetical Index of Poets (pp. 943-945); Alphabetical Index of Titles in English (pp. 947-959); Alphabetical Index of Titles in Greek (pp. 961-973); Acknowledgements (pp. 975-993).
‘The Poems’ contain:
     C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933): “Waiting for the Barbarians” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 2-5); “The City” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 4-5); “The God Abandons Antony” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 6-7); “Ionic” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 6-7); “Ithaka” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 8-11); “Alexandrian Kings” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 10-13); “In the Evening” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 12-13); “For Ammonis, Who Died at 29, in 610” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 14-15); “Half an Hour” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 14-17); “Kaisarion” [tr. Peter Bien] (pp. 16-19); “Since Nine o’Clock” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 18-19); “Comes to Rest” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 20-21); “The Afternoon Sun” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 20-23); “The Bandaged Shoulder” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 22-25); “31 B.C., in Alexandria” [tr. Peter Bien] (pp. 24-25); “In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C.” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 24-27); “A Prince from Western Libya” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 28-29); “Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 28-33); “To Have Taken the Trouble” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 34-37); “In the Year 200 B.C.” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 36-39);
     Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957): from The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel: “The Prologue” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 40-45); “El Greco” [tr. Peter Bien] (pp. 44-53);
     Angelos Sikelianos (1884-1951): “Sparta” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 54-55); “Doric” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 54-57); “On Acrocorinth” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 56-57); “Caïque” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 56-59); “The First Rain” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 58-61); “Pan” [tr. Peter Bien] (pp. 60-63); “Thalero” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 64-67); “The Mother of Dante” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 68-71); “Because I Deeply Praised” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 70-71); “The Sacred Way” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 70-79); “Letter, III” [tr. Eleni Sikelianos] (pp. 78-81); “Agraphon” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 82-85);
     Kostas Varnalis (1884-1974): “Magdalene” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 86-89); “Orestes” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 88-91); “Aphrodite” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 90-91); “The Chosen One” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 90-93); “Alcibiades” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 92-95); “Jungle” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 94-97); “Catechism” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 96-97);
     Kostas Ouranis (1890-1953): “Girl Thirteen Years Old” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 98-99); “I Shall Die One Day on a Mournful Autumn Twilight” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 98-101];
     Takis Papatsonis (1895-1976): “The Dependence” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 102-103); “Before the Advent” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 104-105);
     C.G. Karyotakis (1896-1928): “Clerical Workers” [tr. Rachel Hadas] (pp. 106-107); “Spirochaeta Pallida” [tr. Rachel Hadas] (pp. 106-109); “Marche Funèbre et Perpendiculaire” [tr. David Ricks] (pp. 108-111); “Ideal Suicides” [tr. Rachel Hadas] (pp. 110-111); “Preveza” [tr. Rachel Hadas] (pp. 112-113);
     George Seferis (1900-1971): “from Mythistorema”, ‘15’, ‘16’ [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 114-119); “In the Manner of G.S.” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 118-123); “Our Sun” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 122-125); “Narration” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 124-127); “The King of Asini” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 126-131); “Stratis Thalassinos among the Agapanthi” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 132-135); “An Old Man on the River Bank” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 134-139); “Last Stop” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 138-145); “Helen” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 146-151); “Salamis in Cyprus” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 150-155); “Euripides the Athenian” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 156-157); “from Summer Solstice”, ‘13’, ‘14’ [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 156-159);
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Entries on Literary History
 
3.363   Puchner, Walter. “Jesuit Theater on the Islands of the Aegean Sea”. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 21.2 (October 2003): 207-222.

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3.1026   Keeley, Edmund and Peter Bien, eds. Modern Greek Writers: Solomos, Calvos, Matesis, Palamas, Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Seferis, Elytis. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972. 261 p.
ISBN 0691062153; 9780691062150
The literary renaissance of modern Greece is the subject of essays by ten critics and scholars on the theme “Modern Greek Literature and its European Background”.
Contains: Peter Bien, “Introduction” (pp. 3-22);
1. Zissimos Lorenzatos, “Solomos’ Dialogos: A Survey” (pp. 23-65);
2. Bertrand Bouvier, “Calvos in Geneva” (pp. 67-91);
3. Angelos Terzakis, “Matesis’ Vassilikos: The First Drama of Ideas” (pp. 93-107);
4. Thanasis Maskaleris, “Palamas and World Literature” (pp. 109-122);
5. Edmund Keeley, “The ‘New’ Poems of Cavafy” (pp. 123-143);
6. Peter Bien, “The Demoticism of Kazantzakis” (pp. 145-169);
7. Peter Levi, S.J., “Seferis’ Tone of Voice” (pp. 171-189);
8. Stavros Deligiorgis, “Elytis’ Brecht and Hadzidakis’ Pirandello” (pp. 191-215);
9. Mario Vitti, “Family and Alienation in Contemporary Greek Fiction” (pp. 217-233);
10. C.Th. Dimaras, “Survivances du romantisme dans la culture néo-hellénique” (pp. 235-248).
 
 
 
 
Entries (translations / essays) regarding Authors
 
4.1668 Rhea Galanaki. The Life of Ismail Ferik Pasha: Spina nel Cuore. Translated from the Greek and with a Foreword by Kay Cicellis. London & Chester Springs, PA: Peter Owen; Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 1996. 166 p. <Novel>
ISBN 0-7206-0965-8 cloth; 9780720609653 cloth
            [Ο βίος του Ισμαήλ Φερίκ πασά. Spina nel cuore (Αθήνα: Άγρα, 1989)]
 
4.1679 Calotychos, Vangelis. “Thorns in the Side of Venice? Galanaki’s Pasha and Pamuk’s Castle in the Global Market”. In Greek Modernism and Beyond (Dimitris Tziovas, ed. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997): 243-260.
 
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4.5188 Thanassis Valtinos. Data from the Decade of the Sixties. Translated and with an introduction by Jane Assimakopoulos and Stavros Deligiorgis. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press (Hydra Books), 2000. xv, 307 p. <Prose>
ISBN 0-8101-1699-5; 9780810116993
Also London: Turnaround, 2000 (ISBN 0810116995; 9780810116993).
            [Στοιχεία για τη δεκαετία του ᾿60 (Αθήνα: Στιγμή, 1989)]
 
4.5219 Païvanas, Dimitris. “Ideology’s Discontents in Thanassis Valtinos’s Data from the Decade of the Sixties”. In Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual (Peter Mackridge and Eleni Yannakakis, eds. Oxford: Legenda / European Humanities Research Centre, 2004): 134-149.

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