A Levant Journal
$56.55
- Paperback
210 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2026
Summary
An eloquent glimpse of the humanity behind the headlines by one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, poet, essayist, diarist, and diplomat George Seferis stands as one of the giants of twentieth-century literature. His poetry has long been recognized for its lyric purity, its charged sense of history, and its economy. His no-less marvelous prose extends his preoccupation with tradition into a more daily register, and his journa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780819502636 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0819502634 |
| Author: | George Seferis, Roderick Beaton, A.E. Stallings |
| Publisher: | Wesleyan University Press |
| Imprint: | Wesleyan University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 210 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 178mm |
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Critics Review
“A Levant Journal shows us the master in two intense periods of his professional life, out of which he made great poetry. Roderick Beaton’s long dedication to Seferis is evident on every page of his translation and introduction, and all lovers of Greek literature will want this book.”–Jeffrey Carson, The Athens News
“Seferis describes the difficulties of work and the anxieties of daily life as a diplomat being whisked from post to post to serve in Amman, Cairo, Cyprus, Damascus, JerusalemWe see these places as Seferis saw themand we are touched by his observations.”–Library Journal
George Seferis
George Seferis was born in Smyrna in 1900 and moved with his family to Athens when he was fourteen. He was appointed to the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1926 and subsequently served in Athens, London, and Albania, before accompanying the Greek government in exile to Crete, Egypt, and South Africa. He was stationed in Cairo from 1942-44 and served as Ambassador to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq from 1953-56. His books of poems include Mythistorema (1935), Thrush (1947), and Logbook I, II, III (1940, 1944, 1955). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963 and died in Athens in 1971.
Roderick Beaton is Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London. He is the author of Ariadne’s Children, a novel, numerous scholarly works on modern Greek literature, and, most recently, George Seferis, Waiting for the Angel: A Biography.
A.E. Stallings is the Oxford Professor of Poetry and a multi-award-winning poet whose accolades include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Her books include Archaic Smile (1999), Hapax (2006), Olives (2012), Like (2018), and This Afterlife (2022).
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