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  • George Seferis

    Collected Poems, Revised Edition

    by George Seferis, Edmund Keeley, Philip Sherrard ...
    Series series The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
    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). Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, George Seferis (1900-1971) has ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

    by Igor Stravinsky, George A. Seferis ...
    Translated by Arthur Knodel, Ingolf Dahl ...
    Series Book 57 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    Timeless lessons on the pleasures of listening, the dilemmas of composition, and the meaning of artistic freedom from a founder of musical modernism.In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at Harvard not as a conductor but as a speaker. Invited to deliver the prestigious Norton Lectures, he had departed Europe just days after the outbreak of war, leaving behind not only a growing political ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

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  • The Ninth

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  • The Mighty Dead

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  • The Art of the Novel

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  • Oxford History of Western Music: 5-vol. set: 5-vol. set

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    The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Now in hardcover, the set has been reconstructed to be available for the first time as individual books, each one taking on a critical time period in the history of western music. All five books are also being offered in a shrink ... Read more

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  • Rimbaud: the Works

    A Season in Hell; Poems & Prose; Illuminations

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  • George Seferis: Collected Poems

    by Manolis Aligizakis ...
    Giorgos Seferis was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, in 1900. He attended school in Smyrna and finished his studies at the Gymnasium in Athens. When his family moved to Paris in 1918, Seferis studied law at the University of Paris and became interested in literature. He returned to Athens in 1925 and was admitted to the Royal Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the following year. This was the ... Read more

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    A Season in Hell is an extended poem written and published by French writer Arthur Rimbaud. The book had a considerable influence on later artists and poets, for example the Surrealists. Henry Miller was important in introducing Rimbaud to America in the sixties. He once attempted an English translation of the book and wrote an extended essay on Rimbaud and A Season in Hell titled The Time of the ... Read more

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