George Seferis's mercurial tone can turn on a dime from lyricism to humor and back again, just as his characters shuttle between sensual abandon and neurotic self-flagellation. George Seferis’s Six ...

COLLECTED POEMS, 1924-1955 by George Seferis. 490 pages. Princeton University Press. $10. On the eve of World War II, Greek Poet George Seferis took the measure of impending events and sadly quoted ...

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF CAVAFY (234 pp.)—Translated by Rae Dalven—Harcourt, Brace & World ($6.75). POEMS (127 pp.)—George Seferis—Translated by Rex Warner—Atlantic-Little, Brown ($3.75). The two ...

Harvard University has announced the death of distinguished Byzantinist and Modern Greek scholar Margaret Alexiou, professor emeritus of Modern Greek studies and comparative literature and holder of ...

Last March in Delphi, I was talking with the leader of the conservative New Democracy party, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, four months before he was elected prime minister of Greece. We both emphatically ...

BiographyRoderick Beaton's new biography, George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel, is a comprehensive and ground-breaking study, scholarly yet accessible, well-written, and enlivened by juicy anecdotes.

Three anniversaries were marked at a session at the Mail & Guardian’s Literary Festival this weekend: the birth of Constantine Cavafy 150 years ago, his death in 1933, as well as the conferral of the ...