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Collected Poems
with parallel Greek text
Av C. P. Cavafy, Anthony Hirst
E-bok, 2007
117 kr
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''a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe'' E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster''s description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his …
The Collected Poems
with parallel Greek text
Häftad, 2008
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142 kr
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'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his …
Alexandria, Real and Imagined
Av Anthony Hirst, Michael Silk
Inbunden, 2004
2578 kr
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Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - …
Sweet-Voiced Sappho
Some of the Extant Poems of Sappho of Lesbos and Other Ancient Greek Poems
Häftad, 2015
164 kr
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A selection of the poems of Sappho and other Ancient Greek authors translated into English verse by Theodore Stephanides, with facing Greek texts from editions which correspond closely to the translations. There is a substantial introduction and extensive notes by the editor, Anthony Hirst.
Alexandria, Real and Imagined
Av Michael Silk, Anthony Hirst
E-bok, 2017
956 kr
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Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - …
Alexandria, Real and Imagined
Av Michael Silk, Anthony Hirst
E-bok, 2017
956 kr
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Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - …
Memorials, nightscapes, etcetera
poems of several decades
Häftad, 2020
234 kr
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Collected poems written between 1963 and 2020, most of them published here for the first time.
Kalamas and Acheron
Rivers of Hades
Av Christophoros Milionis, Anthony Hirst m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
195 kr
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A collection of eleven short stories embodying the impact on the rural population of a mountainous district of nortwestern Greece of the events of the Second World War and the Greek Civil War that followed.
And my mother's bitter tears
Av Demetrius Toteras, Anthony Hirst m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
274 kr
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There is no doubt that this is, to a considerable extent, an autobiographical novel. It is also clear that parts of it are fictional, but it is not possible to define with any clarity the boundary between autobiography and fiction. The author did serve in the US Army in the Korean War as an …
Usurpers
Av Willa Muir, Anthony Hirst m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
242 kr
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The Usurpers, Willa Muir's fourth novel, was written in the early 1950s and was based on the diaries she kept in Prague in the period 1945-1948, when her husband the poet Edwin Muir was the Director the British Institute in Prague, the lecturing and teaching arm of the British Council there. Under …
Ars Poetica
Poetry within Poetry and other poems
Av Andonis Fostieris, Anthony Hirst
Häftad, 2023
213 kr
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Poems on the craft, the risks and the subversive power of poetry, selected by the translator in conjunction with the author from the the Greek Collected Edition of Andonis Fostieris’ poems published in 2021 (Apanta ta Poiimata 1970–2020). A bilingual edition with the Greek text from that edition …
last twelve months or so (Oct 2023 . . . Nov 2024)
Musings of a disordered mind
Häftad, 2025
143 kr
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In this fourth volume of poetry by Anthony Hirst, the 46 poems, written in the fourteen-month period from October 2023 to November 2024, are all dated and arranged in chronological order. They include political themes – responses to the wars in Gaza and the Ukraine and to the destruction of our …
God and the Poetic Ego
The Appropriation of Biblical and Liturgical Language in the Poetry of Palamas, Sikelianos and Elytis
Av Anthony Hirst, Andrew Louth m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
1243 kr
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The Greek Bible and the services of the Orthodox Church have proved a rich source of language for many poets of modern Greece, and perhaps for none more than for Kostis Palamas, Angelos Sikelianos and Odysseas Elytis, whose overlapping careers span the period 1876-1996. A blurring of the boundaries …
Two Years at the Road Side
Reflections, dreams and distant memories
Häftad, 2023
164 kr
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An extremely varied collection of poetry mostly written in the period May 2021 to October 2023. The second part of the title, "at the road side" is, according to the Introduction, “a metaphor for where an ageing man feels himself to be in relation to the deteriorating world situation”. Included are …
