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Greek Critical Thinking

Zisimos Lorentzos

Zisimos Lorentzatos (1915–2004) was born in Athens, the son of the philologist and professor Panagiotis Lorentzatos. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Athens and devoted himself to critical study, translation and poetry. He made his literary debut in 1936 with the study ‘Edgar Allan Poe: The Exceptions; The Philosophy of Composition; The Poetic Principle’ and established his reputation with his book Essay I, on the poetic work of Dionysios Solomos. He also published studies on the work of Alexandros Papadiamantis, Giorgos Seferis, C.P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, Dimitris Hatzis and others. In the field of translation, he has worked on authors such as Ezra Pound, André Gide and William Blake.

Two texts

Zisimos Lorentzos

Poems

Zisimos Lorentzos

A collected edition of the poems of Zisimos Lorentzatos, comprising the collections: Small Syrtis, Alphabet and Collection.

Translations

Zisimos Lorentzos

This volume brings together the published translated poetic works of Zisimos Lorentzatos. It features translations of works by: Ezra Pound, W. Blake, Friedrich Hölderlin, W.B. Yeats, Eugenio Montale, Wisława Szymborska and W.H. Auden. In addition to the poems, the book includes introductory notes by Zisimos Lorentzatos and an appendix presenting Edgar Allan Poe’s essays ‘The Philosophy of Composition’, The Poetic Principle and Eureka, as well as a prose translation of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem, Felix Randal, which is an excerpt from Z. Lorentzatos’s study A Tribute to E.A. Blair (George Orwell). The translator’s personal copies were used in the preparation of this edition.

Short analytical essays on Cavafy

Zisimos Lorentzos

Greek Critical Thinking

Zisimos Lorentzos

A quatrain by Hölderlin

Zisimos Lorentzos

On the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, Ikaros published a short text that had been read as a speech at the Macedonian Artistic Society ‘The Art’ in Thessaloniki on 29 March 1967. The four-line poem is entitled ‘The Unforgivable’, and Zisimos Lorentzatos’s translation is as follows: To forget friends, to mock the craftsman, And to dismiss the deepest mind as small and insignificant, God forgives it – just do not disturb The peace of your loved ones.

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