The Sovereign Sun: Selected Poems

by Odysseus Elytis and Odysseas Elytis

Book Overview

Odysseus Elytis (1911-96) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979. With Seferis and the 'Generation of the Thirties', he introduced French Surrealism into Greek poetry. Kimon Friar's classic translation The Sovereign Sun begins with his brilliantly sensuous early poems. It has large selections from his master work, Axion Esti (1959), and includes the whole of his Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign (1945)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852241209
• ISBN13: 9781852241209
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"