Odysseus Elytis: Selected Poems 1940-1979 Odysseus Elytis, translated by Edmund Keeley, Philip Sherrard, George Savidis, John Stathatos Nanos Valao

A representative selection from the work of one of modern Greece’s most fascinating poets, drawn from all periods of his distinguished career and traces his development from early surrealism through the dramatic style of The Axion Esti up to the later work in which he experiments with new modes for expressing his perennial themes. Elytis was awarded he Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979.