[{"id":203224,"title":"This Dialectic of Blood and Light","subtitle":"George Seferis - Philip Sherrard An Exchange: 1947- 1971","description":"\"...this dialectic of blood and light\u003cbr\u003ewhich is the history of your people...\"\u003cbr\u003eSherrard to Seferis, 20 March 1950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Sherrard first came across George Seferis's poetry when as a young man still in the army he was transferred to Greece in 1946. It made such a powerful impression on him that when he returned to England he started corresponding with Seferis, began translating his poetry into English, and ultimately decided to do his PhD on modern Greek poetry. Much later Sherrard was to translate, together with Edmund Keeley, Seferis's Collected Poems for Princeton University Press. The Seferis - Sherrard correspondence is not vast, but nevertheless revealing of both men's orientation, most particularly Sherrard's as he became increasingly interested in the Christian Orthodox East, and who simultaneously with his involvement in Greek literature and especially modern Greek poetry went on to write a number of important theological studies. Included with the correspondence are the texts that the two men sent to each other and three studies of Seferis's poetry written by Sherrard, the one published here for the first time. The book is introduced by the Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at Oxford, Peter Mackridge, and the theologian Vincent Rossi, as well as by Sherrard himself in a text published here for the first time.\u003cbr\u003eFrom \"The Other Mind of Europe\", Philip Sherrard’s introductory essay to his correspondence with George Seferis:\u003cbr\u003e\"I still remember my bewilderment when Seferis sent me a letter in which occur such phrases as: \"I have a very organic feeling which identifies my human life with the life of nature\", and went on to speak of the Greek world - the world of Greek nature - as \"lines which occur and recur; bodies and features, the tragic silence of a face ... There is a process of humanization in the Greek light ... Just think of those cords that bind man and the elements of nature together, this tragedy which is at once natural and human, this intimacy. Just think how the light of day and man’s blood are one and the same thing. \"or when some passages from his diary were given to me, one of which read: I know that all my life will not be sufficient to express what I have been trying to express for so long: this union of nature with the simple human body.\" It is as if Seferis thought, not by discursive reasoning, but intuitively, in terms of natural objects, in terms of sensual images. It is as if the subject of his thought revealed itself to him not as an abstraction divorced from the rest of life, but in all its relationships not only to other ideas but to nature as well.’","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b206422.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-37-3","isbn13":"978-960-7120-37-3","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":11746,"name":"Ρωμιοσύνη","books_count":1,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosynh' 'rvmiosynh' 'rwmiosynh'","created_at":"2017-04-13T02:41:57.383+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T02:41:57.383+03:00"},"pages":416,"publication_year":2015,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"23.0","price_updated_at":"2015-12-21","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":206422,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/this-dialectic-of-blood-and-light.json"},{"id":82928,"title":"On the Greek Style","subtitle":"Selected Essays in Poetry and Hellenism","description":"Τhis is the first collection of the essays of George Seferis to be published in English. The selection was made by Seferis himself, drawing upon his prose work written over a period of thirty years. Seferis was a classicist and a humanist, a man of modern sensibility imbued with a deep respect for Mediterranean tradition. He is present iη all these aspects in his essays. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, the citation spoke of \"his eminent lyrical writings inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture\". Hellenism for Seferis is an enduring style, as alive and as meaningful today as when Homer and Pericles walked the roads of Greece. \"If we want to understand the ancient Greeks,\" Seferis writes, \"it is always into the soul of our own people that we should Iook.\" \u003cbr\u003eΑ central group of essays, then, is concerned with the spirit of Hellenism as it continues to manifest itself iη Greek painting, poetry, history, landscape, and religion. But of equal interest are the essays that explore international themes: art and \"engagement\"; the poetry of Eliot and Cavafy; the theatre of Pirandello; and the role of the artist in the modern world. Admirers of Seferis's poetry will take particular pleasure iη his introduction to his Iong poem \"The Thrush\", which is followed in this edition by the poem itself. \u003cbr\u003eVarious and occasional as these essays are, they are united by the extraordinary sensibility of their author. And they are to be savoured equally for their wisdom, subtlety, and impeccable style. \u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b84962.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-03-5","isbn13":"978-960-7120-03-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":5605,"name":"The Romiosyni Series","books_count":13,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series' 'the'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:40:03.846+03:00"},"pages":197,"publication_year":2000,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"10.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":84962,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/on-the-greek-style.json"}]