ARGONAUT BOOKS

The collected works of the the veteran Greek diplomat and scholar who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1963. Reviews 'Seferis' extraordinary gift occupies...the realm of the marvellous real.' 'Rather than an inventory of ruins, or setting up of monuments, his is a poetry of recovery. He achieves this with an uncanny simplicity. The directness of tone feels personal. The pitch works against poetical memory...towards the difficult, unresolved enigma, that of a collective of individuals, buried in the Greek landscape....Seferis raises them up for sympat...Read More