George Seferis - Nobel Prize in Literature, 1963 (3 books +) torrent

GEORGE SEFERIS, the pen name of Georgios Seferiades (1900-1971) , was a Greek poet and career diplomat. One of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, he was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture."

Wandering and exile are present in Seferis's poetry, and his work is attuned to the history of Greece -- the Nobel Prize committee recognized him as a "representative Hellenic poet." His poetry often intertwines contemporary speech and experience with Homeric myth, and many of his poems depict the landscape of the Mediterranean. In their Foreword to his COLLECTED POEMS, translators Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard noted: "The distinguishing attribute of Seferis's genius -- one that he shares with Yeats and Eliot -- was always his ability to make out of a local politics, out of a personal history or mythology, some sort of general statement or metaphor."
The following texts are in PDF format:

* The Art of Poetry, no. 13 (Paris Review, Fall 1970). Interview by Edmund Keeley.

* Collected Poems, 1924-1955 (Princeton UP, 1981). Expanded bilingual edition, translated and edited by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

* Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

* Poems (Atlantic Monthly, 1964). Translated by Rex Warner.

* Selected Poems and Letters, 1951-1971 (Princeton University Library Chronicle, Spring 1997). Edited and annotated by Edmund Keeley.

* "Some Notes on Modern Greek Tradition": The Nobel Prize Lecture (Nobel Foundation, 1963).