Ritsos in Parentheses

Hardback

Main Details

Title Ritsos in Parentheses
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Yannis Ritsos
Translated by Edmund Keeley
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:204
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780691632735
ClassificationsDewey:889.132
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
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