Edmund Keeley

Biographic Data

ID1002572
NAMEEdmund Keeley
GIVEN NAMESEdmund
FAMILY NAMEKeeley
SIGNATUREKEELEY E
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR15
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • George Seferis

    George Seferis, Edmund Keeley et al.TRANSLATORBOOKGeorge Seferis2024

  • Nostos and the poet's vision in Seferis and Ritsos

    Edmund KeeleyCHAPTERAncient Greek Myth in Modern…2023

  • Voices of Modern Greece

    Open AccessC P Cavafy, Constantine Cavafy et al.TRANSLATORBOOKVoices of Modern Greece2021

  • Ritsos in Parentheses

    Edmund Keeley, Yannis RitsosBOOKRitsos in Parentheses2015

  • Modern Greek Writers

    Edmund Keeley, Peter BienBOOKModern Greek Writers2015

    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 cult…

  • The Other Penelope

    Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Edmund Keeley et al.ARTICLEWorld Literature Today2009

    The Other Penelope Penelope emerges fromtheolive trees her hairmore or less tidy her dress from theneighborhood market navy blue with white flowers. She tellsus it wasn't obsession with the idea of "Odysseus" thatpressed her to let the suitors wait foryears in the forecourts ofher body's secrethabits. There in the island's palace with the fakehorizons of a saccharine love and only thebird in the window comprehending the infinite she had painted w…

  • George Seferis

    Edmund Keeley, GeorgeHG Seferis et al.BOOKGeorge Seferis1995

    This new bilingual edition of George Seferis: Collected Poems both supplements and revises the two earlier editions published in 1967 and 1969. It presents for the first time the complete Notes for a 'Week,' Three Secret Poems, and three later poems that were not collected by the poet himself but whose English translation he authorized during his lifetime. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand …

  • The Salonika Bay Murder

    Gaddis Smith, Edmund KeeleyARTICLEForeign Affairs1989Cited by: 1

    Edmund Keeley makes a penetrating inquiry into the injustices of the affair--the sensational murder of the zealous American journalist George Polk during the Greek Civil War, and the subsequent trial of a scapegoat in whitewashed proceedings that involved not only Greek, American, and British government officials but also a committee of distinguished American journalists and their representatives in Greece. Keeley's account shows how Cold War pol…

  • Voices of Modern Greece

    Open AccessEdmund Keeley, Philip SherrardEDITORBOOKVoices of Modern Greece1982

    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. Geo…

  • Ancient Greek Myth in Angelos Sikelianos

    Open AccessEdmund KeeleyARTICLEByzantine and Modern Greek Studies1981

    In the introduction to Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems , the translators speak of Sikelianos’s ‘mythological attitude... toward life’ and of his conception of myth not so much ‘as a rhetorical or metaphorical device but as a spontaneous creation of the human soul directed toward the revelation of a hidden spiritual life’, in short, of mythology as a kind of religion closely related to Schelling’s perception of the function of myth. These remar…

  • Cavafy's Alexandria

    Diskin Clay, Edmund KeeleyARTICLEModern Language Notes1977

  • Cavafy's Alexandria

    Edmund KeeleyBOOKCavafy's Alexandria1976

    Preface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgments1Introduction: The Literal City12The Metaphoric City133The Sensual City434Mythical Alexandria755The World of Hellenism1036The Universal Perspective1337Epilogue: Voice, Perspective, and Context153Appendixes181Bibliographical Note197Notes199Indexes217

  • In the Year 200 B. C

    C P Cavafy, Edmund Keeley et al.ARTICLEboundary 21973

  • Returning from Greece

    C P Cavafy, Edmund Keeley et al.ARTICLEboundary 21973

  • Dimaratos

    C P Cavafy, Edmund Keeley et al.ARTICLEboundary 21973

  • In Sparta

    C P Cavafy, Edmund Keeley et al.ARTICLEboundary 21973

  • John Kantakuzinos Triumphs

    C P Cavafy, Constantine Cavafy et al.ARTICLEboundary 21973

  • Passions and Ancient Days

    John E Rexine, John Ε Rexine et al.ARTICLEBooks Abroad1972Cited by: 1