Ritsos in Parentheses

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Ritsos in Parentheses
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Yannis Ritsos
Translated by Edmund Keeley
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:204
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780691603391
ClassificationsDewey:889.132
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 8 March 2015
Publication Country United States

Description

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