Marble Threshing Floor : Studies in Modern Greek Poetry by Sherrard,Philip - 1980

Limni,Evvia,Greece: Denise Harvey, 1980 (New - will be sent to you direct from the publisher in Greece) Modern Greek poetry has behind it the awe-inspiring worlds of ancient Greece and Byzantium as well as the centuries old tradition of folk song and ballads. In this book Philip Sherrard examines the poetry of the most significant of these poets (Solomos, Palamas, Cavafy, Sikelianos and Seferis) and introduces the reader to their imaginative worlds and the experience of life to which the poetry bears witness. ". The first substantial study of modern Greek Poetry to be published in English."(Reprint of 1956 ed.) 258p.index.. Reprint. Soft Cover. New Book from Greece.