Greece in Poetry: With Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, and Other Works of Art

Without reservation or qualification, GREECE IN POETRY (an unknown and unfound book treasure thus far) belongs eminently among the most successful and splendid publishing ventures to combine great poetry with great art. . . . Poetry written in Greek constitutes the longest uninterrupted literary tradition in the Western World. It is Greece that has given the Western World the major poetic genres with which Westerners have forcefully and beautifully expressed their deepest emotions and loftiest thoughts down to the present day. In this book, the reader discovers (or re-discovers) Greece through its poetry: in its verse plays by Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides, in its epic poems by Homer, in the lyrical poetry of Sappho, and from the pens of modern Greek poets--Cavafy, Solomos, Kazantzakis, Elytis, Seferis, and others. Editor Simoni Zafiropoulos joins these Greek voices to voices of poets who have written over the centuries in other languages about Greece: Byron, Keats, Shelley, Hold