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Ritsos in Parentheses
By (Author) Yannis Ritsos
Translated by Edmund Keeley
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
889.132
Hardback
204
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
454g
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