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Albanian Journal: The Road to Elbasan

By Edmund Keeley

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9781877727764 | White Pine Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $14.00

Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems

By Edmund Keeley (trans)

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9789607120120 | Attica Editions, September 1, 1996, cover price $19.95

Borderlines: A Memoir

Product Description: Keeley has had a lifelong relationship with Greece, beginning with his childhood, when his father served in the diplomatic corp. Borderlines is his memoir of Greece, its life, culture, writers and people. It traces his childhood through the war years, when, unable to return due to the war, he became almost an exile in his home country...read more

By Edmund Keeley

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9781893996335 | White Pine Pr, May 1, 2005, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Keeley has had a lifelong relationship with Greece, beginning with his childhood, when his father served in the diplomatic corp.

Cavafy's Alexandria

By Edmund Keeley

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9780691044989 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, December 11, 1995), cover price $43.95

A Century of Greek Poetry, 1900-2000: 1900-2000

Product Description: This unique bilingual anthology presents the achievements of Greek poetry in the 20th century. Included are 109 poets and 456 poems, with the Greek original and the English translation on opposite pages. Included are the internationally recognized C...read more

By Peter Bien, Peter Constantine, Edmund Keeley and Karen Van Dyck

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9781932455007 | Bilingual edition (Attica Editions, March 1, 2004), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This unique bilingual anthology presents the achievements of Greek poetry in the 20th century.

Complete Poems of George Seferis

Product Description: George Seferis (1900-1971) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. Truthful and magical, his poetry has captivated both Greek and foreign readers. Aptly described by Charlotte Du Cann as 'the unlocker of ancient stones and sea voyages', Seferis was for Peter Levi 'one of the greatest writers in this century in any language...read more

By Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (trans)

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9780856462139 | Subsequent edition (Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd, July 1, 1989), cover price $31.90 | About this edition: George Seferis (1900-1971) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963.

C.P. Cavafy Collected Poems

Product Description: C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature...read more

By Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

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9780691069845 | Rev sub edition (Princeton Univ Pr, October 1, 1992), cover price $47.50 | About this edition: C.

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9780691015378, titled "C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems" | Revised edition (Princeton Univ Pr, September 8, 1992), cover price $24.95

Diaries of Exile

By Karen Emmerich (trans), Edmund Keeley (trans) and Yannis Ritsos

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9781935744580 | Archipelago Books, November 16, 2012, cover price $15.00

The Essential Cavafy

Gathers selected poems from C. P. Cavafy that explore the history and culture of his native country, Greece, accompanied by a concise portrait of the poet, his work, and his important influence on younger generations of writers. Reprint.

By Edmund Keeley

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9780880014267 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Gathers selected poems from Cavafy that explore the history and culture of his country, Greece, and provides a brief biography of the poet

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9780880015165 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, November 1, 1996), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Gathers selected poems from C.

George Seferis: Collected Poems

Product Description: In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition, George Seferis: Collected Poems (expanded edition, 1981)...read more

By Edmund Keeley

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9780691068619 | Rev sub edition (Princeton Univ Pr, August 1, 1995), cover price $47.50 | About this edition: In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume.

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9780691014913 | Revised edition (Princeton Univ Pr, July 3, 1995), cover price $30.95

9780691013732 | Expanded edition (Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1982), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Presents the collected poems of the Nobel Prize-winning Greek author, together with critical and biographical notes

A Greek Quintet: Poems by Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis, Elytis And Gatsos

Product Description: Poems by Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis, Elytis and Gatsos. This anthology brings together a selection from the works of the five poets who may be said to take pride of place in substantiating the Greek poetry achievement of the 20th century.

By Edmund Keeley (trans) and Philip Sherrard (trans)

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9789607120014 | Attica Editions, July 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Poems by Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis, Elytis and Gatsos.

Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-1947

The author describes his travels in Greece with fellow American author Lawrence Durrell and their Greek literary hosts (view table of contents)

By Edmund Keeley

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9780374177171 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author describes his travels in Greece with fellow American author Lawrence Durrell and their Greek literary hosts

Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47

Product Description: In the looming shadow of dictatorship and imminent war, George Seferis and George Katsimbalis welcomed Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell to their homeland. Together, as they spent evenings in tavernas, explored the Peloponnese, and considered the meaning of Greek life and freedom and art, they seemed to be inventing paradise...read more

By Edmund Keeley

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9780810119390 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, August 1, 2002), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In the looming shadow of dictatorship and imminent war, George Seferis and George Katsimbalis welcomed Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell to their homeland.

The Legacy of R.P. Blackmur: Essays, Memoirs, Texts

Examines the work of the noted critic through essays and memoirs, and reprints many of his pieces which discuss particular works of literature and the nature of criticism

By Edward T. Cone, Joseph Frank and Edmund Keeley (editor)

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9780880011525 | Ecco Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Examines the work of the noted critic through essays and memoirs, and reprints many of his pieces which discuss particular works of literature and the nature of criticism

Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth

Product Description: The Description for this book, Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth, will be forthcoming.

By Edmund Keeley

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9780691065861 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1983, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: The Description for this book, Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth, will be forthcoming.

Modern Greek Writers: Solomos, Calvos, Matesis, Palamas, Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Seferis, Elytis

Product Description: The literary renaissance of Modern Greece is the subject of essays by ten critics and scholars on the theme, "Modern Greek Literature and it European Background." From Zissimos Lorenzatos' discussion of the nineteenth- century poet Solomos to Peter Bien's analysis of Kazantznkis' fervent demoticism, they give evidence of the creative activity that has been going on as Greek writers in all genres turn outward to Europe and inward to their own culture to form a unique modern literature...read more

By Edmund Keeley

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9780691619712 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: The literary renaissance of Modern Greece is the subject of essays by ten critics and scholars on the theme, "Modern Greek Literature and it European Background.

Odysseus Elytis: Selected Poems 1940-1979

By Odysseus Elytis, Edmund Keeley (editor) and Philip Sherrard (editor)

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9780856463556 | Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd, March 30, 2008, cover price $16.95

On Translation: Reflections and Conversations

Product Description: Translation:is it a craft?is it an art?is it something in between?Novelist, translator, and critic Edmund Keeley has been translating and studying the Modern Greek poets for over forty-five years. He began thinking of translation as a craft but: "in the hands of its best practitioners, [translation is] a form of art that deserves to abide on equal terms with all other literary arts" ...read more

By Edmund Keeley

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9789057550713 | Harwood Academic Pub, January 1, 2000, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Translation:is it a craft?

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9789057550720 | Harwood Academic Pub, September 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Translation:is it a craft?

Requiem for Mary

Product Description: Poetry. Edmund Keeley, novelist, critic and celebrated translator of modern Greek poets has written a heartfelt suite of poems, a requiem to his late wife Mary.

By Edmund Keeley

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9780983809425 | Greenhouse Review Pr, October 1, 2015, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

Ritsos in Parentheses

By Edmund Keeley (trans)

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9780691632735 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $74.95

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9780691603391 | Italian edition edition (Princeton Univ Pr, March 8, 2015), cover price $29.95

The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair

Recounts the murder of American journalist George Polk during the Greek Civil War, and discusses the political forces that shaped the murder trial's outcome

By Edmund Keeley

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9780691055657 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Recounts the murder of American journalist George Polk during the Greek Civil War, and discusses the political forces that shaped the murder trial's outcome

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9780691008585 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, April 1, 1990), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Recounts the murder of American journalist George Polk during the Greek Civil War, and discusses the political forces that shaped the murder trial's outcome

School for Pagan Lovers

On the eve of World War II, seventeen-year-old Hal Gogarty arrives in Greece and falls in love with Magda Sevillas, his half-Jewish German tutor, and the two defy odds to keep their love alive.

By Edmund Keeley

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9780813519357 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: On the eve of World War II, seventeen-year-old Hal Gogarty arrives in Greece and falls in love with Magda Sevillas, his half-Jewish German tutor, and the two defy odds to keep their love alive

Some Wine for Remembrance

Product Description: In September, 1944, near the village of Hortiati in Macedonian Greece the death of a German soldier in an ambush by a guerrilla unit brought on a Wehrmacht retaliation that resulted in the massacre of one hundred and forty-six villagers, sixty-nine of whom were burned to death in the sealed village bakery, and the total destruction of the village...read more

By Edmund Keeley

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9781893996151 | White Pine Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In September, 1944, near the village of Hortiati in Macedonian Greece the death of a German soldier in an ambush by a guerrilla unit brought on a Wehrmacht retaliation that resulted in the massacre of one hundred and forty-six villagers, sixty-nine of whom were burned to death in the sealed village bakery, and the total destruction of the village.

Voices of Modern Greece: Selected Poems by C.p. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos

Product Description: This anthology is composed of recently revised translations selected from the five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard during the past two decades. The poems chosen are those that translate most successfully into English and that are also representative of the best work of the original poets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Constantine Cavafy (editor) and Edmund Keeley (editor)

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9780691013824 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 1, 1982, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: This anthology is composed of recently revised translations selected from the five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard during the past two decades.

Wilderness Called Peace

Interwoven with the first person account of Sameth, a woman of complex European-Asian background, is the story of the efforts of her former lover, an American diplomat, to track her down in Cambodia shattered by war and convulsed by tyranny

By Edmund Keeley

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9780671474164 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1985, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: Interwoven with the first-person account of Sameth, a woman of complex European-Asian background, is the story of the efforts of her former lover, an American diplomat, to track her down in a Cambodia shattered by war and convulsed by tyranny

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9780440393764, titled "A Wilderness Called Peace" | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, July 1, 1987), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Interwoven with the first person account of Sameth, a woman of complex European-Asian background, is the story of the efforts of her former lover, an American diplomat, to track her down in Cambodia shattered by war and convulsed by tyranny

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