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.
C. P. Cavafy and Angelos Sikelianos are major poets of the first half of
the twentieth century. George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, who followed
them, both won the Nobel Prize in literature. Nikos Gatsos was a very
popular translator, lyricist, and critic.