The Hellenic Bookservice Book of the Year 2005

A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000

Selected and Edited by: Peter Bien, Peter Constantine, Edmund Keeley and Karen Van Dyck. PARALLEL English-Greek text.

A wonderful, evocative, thought provoking, superb,  mind-bogglingly excellent selection of practically  every Greek poet you may, or may not, have heard of, published, all those years ago; thoughtfully and expertly translated from the original Greek, with the original text beside the translation. This is among the best books EVER produced on Greek or, about Modern Greek literature. A Century of Greek Poetry is lovingly produced in hardback, with a rather splendid dust jacket, is demy 8vo, has 993 pages inc. indices and is, frankly, one of the finest books I have ever seen regarding Greek literature, in general and probably the finest anthology of Greek poetry ever published. Hardback. Cosmos, 2004; £39.99. Postage to mainland UK £5.01; the rest of Europe £8.01;  the Rest of the World £15.01 Air Mail - or £8.01 Surface Mail ORDER THIS BOOK

An absolutely magnificent, hardback with superbly translated (and original ; yes, it's parallel text ; Greek and English!), anthology of Greek poetry, from the whole of the 20th century. We have, somehow(!), managed to keep the price below £40.00, and can offer this, including postage, to the UK at £45.00 (It weighs the proverbial ton this does!). A contents' review is forthcoming, but needless to say, this is one of the finest books EVER on Greek poetry.  There are more "usual suspects" here - from a nation whose poetry is beyond compare - than one could shake Astirachus at! Not that he's included; this is strictly modern, Millicent! Stelios Jackson

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*Nobel Prize Winner

Also included: Bibliographies of the four editors; alphabetic list of poems/titles in English/titles in Greek/ Acknowledgements

Stelios Jackson 1/11/05