A modern poet reads ancient war texts
Politics, life and death in George Seferis’ ‘The Last Day’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11932552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Polina Tambakaki (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 218-236 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-0131 • E-ISSN: 1749-625X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1179/174962508x322696 |
| OpenAlex | W1982259575 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
It has been argued that ‘The Last Day’, written during the Metaxas dictatorship and while the Second World War was looming on the horizon, constitutes Seferis’ answer to the exhausted model of the ‘national poet’. The aim of this article is to examine in detail the poem’s allusions to ancient war texts, in order to deal with what stood at the heart of this answer, namely the key concept of the ‘historical poet’. Of prime importance will be issues of language and gender raised by the poem, as well as the historical context of its writing and reception
Ancient history · Art · Art history · George (robot · Literature · Political science · Politics · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Classics · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2013 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |