Irish Poets and Modern Greece: Heaney, Mahon, Cavafy, Seferis

by Joanna Kruczkowska

Book Overview

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Island visions: Derek Mahon's Cyclades.- Chapter 2. Mainland Hellas: Seamus Heaney's Peloponnese and Delphi.- Chapter 3. The winding road of translation: Derek Mahon's versions of Cavafy.- Chapter 4. Mediating the canon: Seamus Heaney's versions of Cavafy.- Chapter 5. Asphodels and aspalathoi: Seferis, Heaney, Mahon: politics and landscape.- Bibliography.- Index.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319581686
• ISBN13: 9783319581682
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"