Complete Poems by George Seferis Valley Press book reviews

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which demonstrate a fresh and wry talent all of her own

We feel it’s no overstatement to say this is the one book that everyone should own

Maurice Riordan

and perhaps even to speak poetry aloud

Complete Poems by George Seferis Valley Press book reviewsGeorge Seferis is the great Greek poet of the twentieth century, a classic among classics. The formal and thematic versatility of his work, its decisively modern inflections, call Eliots poems to mind: fastidious and expansive in equal measure. Like Eliots deep rooted Modernism, Seferiss never loses touch with the stones and inscriptions of the past. He writes for his and our time, poetically and politically alert: culture can free us or, misapplied,