Selected Poems of Odysseus Elytis

This concise selection from the work of one of modern Greece's most fascinating poets was made shortly after his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The prize was awarded to him "for his poetry which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness." This book, edited by the leading proponents of modern Greek poetry in English, serves to exemplify those qualities.

Edmund Keeley is a novelist and critic as well as translator of Greek poetry. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Born in Crete in 1911, Odysseus Elytis was one of the most prominent poets of the Greek resistance during the Nazi occupation. The Nobel Prize was awarded to him in 1979;he died in Athens in 1995.

Philip Sherrard (1922-1995) lived on the island of Evia. His selected poems, In the Sign of the Rainbow, was published in 1996.