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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); … (the description continues here in our files)
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.