{"id":369,"date":"2017-10-29T07:04:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T04:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2018-01-18T14:43:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:43:06","slug":"george-seferis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/369\/george-seferis\/","title":{"rendered":"George Seferis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although he received the Nobel prize, George Seferis is not among the greatest poets of Modern Greece, such as Solomos<\/a>, Cavafy<\/a>, or\u00a0Papatsonis<\/a>. He is better in essays and\u00a0notes, but his poems are the works of a man who wanted to become a poet.<\/p>\n

In one of his finest achievements,\u00a0which is\u00a0this apophthegm, Seferis writes: “As pines keep the shape of the wind even when the wind has fled and is no longer there, so words guard the shape of man even when man has fled and is no longer there.”<\/p>\n

The shapes guarded by Seferis’ poems lack the\u00a0power that makes a great poem, the creative\u00a0passion which leads in a necessary form, when words and phrases\u00a0have\u00a0an irreplaceable identity\u00a0grasping\u00a0ideas of supreme\u00a0clarity.<\/p>\n

Seferis Resources:
\nThoughts of George\u00a0Seferis<\/a> (audio file, in Greek)<\/p>\n

Our Sun<\/a>\u00a0(a poem)<\/p>\n

Award to Roderick Beaton for his translation of Seferis<\/a><\/p>\n

Seferis in English: a list of translations<\/a><\/p>\n

Seferis books<\/a><\/p>\n

Seferis @ Wikipedia<\/a>,<\/p>\n

A Collection of Seferis poems (in English)<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Nobel prize page<\/a><\/p>\n

Cf. Census of English-language translations of Modern Greek Literature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although he received the Nobel prize, George Seferis is not among the greatest poets of Modern Greece, such as Solomos, Cavafy, or\u00a0Papatsonis. He is better in essays and\u00a0notes, but his poems are the works of a man who wanted to become a poet. In one of his finest achievements,\u00a0which is\u00a0this apophthegm, Seferis writes: “As pines […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_disable_autopaging":false},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[178,1181,181,172,1178,1179,144,1177,1180,1182,371],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elpenor-greek-library","category-modern-literature","tag-cavafy","tag-clarity","tag-elytis","tag-modern-greece","tag-modern-greek-literature","tag-nobel-prize","tag-papatsonis","tag-seferis-poems","tag-sinopoulos","tag-solomos","tag-theodorakis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}