This book is an anthology of poems and texts by George Seferis. Seferis’s texts, together with those of the editors, provide a framework for the poems and aim to serve as helpful commentary for their reading. The book is aimed primarily at readers encountering Seferis’s poetry for the first time, with the aim of providing a more comprehensive, systematic and enjoyable reading experience.
Euripides Garantoudis is an assistant professor of Modern Greek literature in the Department of Greek Literature at the University of Athens.
Takis Kagialis is an associate professor of Modern Greek literature at the Hellenic Open University.
- Pages: 400
- ISBN: 978-960-8399-56-3
- Publication: 2008
- Categories: Books, Essays & Thought, Μελέτη
"...we must note Giorgos Seferis’s extremely simplified presentation, which does not lose sight of the essence, but is presented in such a way that the poet’s personality is accessible to everyone."
– Stefanos Xenos, Book TimesEuripides Garantoudis
Euripides Garantoudis was born in 1964 in Kavala. He studied Modern Greek Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Thessaloniki. From 1986 to 1989, he taught Modern Greek language and literature at the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Padua. From 1995 to 2003, he taught Modern Greek literature at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Crete (as an assistant professor in 1999). He also served as a researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology, working on a history of Modern Greek metre.
He currently teaches Modern Greek literature in the Department of Philology at the University of Athens, holding the rank of associate professor. He has published the following books: "Ancient and Modern Greek Metrics. A Historical Diagram of a Misunderstanding", Padua 1989, "Polytropic Harmony. The Metrics and Poetics of Kalvos", Heraklion, University of Crete Press - House of Fine Arts and Letters 1995, and "Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry 1980–1997. Moments of Nostalgia", Athens, Nefeli Publications 1998. He edited the books: "Gerasimos Spatalas, The Art of Verse. Studies in Modern Greek Metrics", Heraklion, University of Crete Press 1997 (in collaboration with Anna Katsigianni) and "Takis Sinopoulos, Chronicle of Readings. Book Reviews on Post-War Poetry", Athens, Sokolis 1999 (in collaboration with Dora Menti). His book reviews and studies on topics in Modern Greek literature have been published in journals and newspapers.
Takis Kagialis
Takis Kagialis (b. 1959) is an associate professor of Modern Greek literature at the School of Humanities of the Hellenic Open University.