The Isles of Greece: A Collection of the Poetry of Place - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1906011168 ISBN 13 : 9781906011161

Editeur : Eland Publishing Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Greek islands have proved to be places of beauty and enchantment, but also of violence, of love and death. "Isles of Greece" doesn't plot a course from island to island. Instead it groups together poems and prose extracts in order to provide some sense of the glittering delights and dark tragedies that are part of the history and the present of all Greek islands. Solomos, the Greek national poet, was born on the island of Zante, as was his contemporary, Kalvos. Byron, was perhaps the first non-Greek of modern times to sing the island's praises, but there have been many since including the English poets Lawrence Durrell and Michael Ayrton, the Americans Rachel Hadas and David Mason and Australia's Chairman Clift. These are small books that open our vast landscapes of the mind.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Lucas was Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He is a poet and translator, a former poetry editor at the New Statesman and he has written many critical works.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Eland Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906011168
• ISBN 13: 9781906011161
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Éditeur: Lucas John
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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