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Read all comments. Best Poem of Giorgos Seferis. The Jasmin Whether it's dusk or dawn's first light George Seferis: Complete Poems jasmin stays always white. Read the full of The Jasmin. Famous Poets. Social Media. Delivering Poems Around The World. All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge Giorgos Seferis - Wikipedia He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to the UK, a post which he held from to His father, Stelios Seferiadis, was a lawyerand later a professor at the University of Athensas well as a poet and translator in his own right. He was also a staunch Venizelist and a supporter of the demotic Greek language over the formal, official language katharevousa. Both of these attitudes influenced his son. In the family moved to Athenswhere Seferis completed his secondary school education. He continued his studies in Paris from tostudying law at George Seferis: Complete Poems Sorbonne. Many Greeks, including Seferis's family, fled from Asia Minor. Seferis would not visit Smyrna again until ; the sense of being an exile from his childhood home would inform much of Seferis's poetry, showing itself particularly in his interest in the story of Odysseus. Seferis was also greatly influenced by KavafisT. Eliot and Ezra Pound. This George Seferis: Complete Poems the beginning of a long and successful diplomatic career, during which he held posts in England — and Albania — He continued to serve in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and held diplomatic posts in Ankara, Turkey — and London — He was appointed minister to LebanonSyria, Jordanand Iraq —and was Royal Greek George Seferis: Complete Poems to the United Kingdom from tothe last post before his retirement in Athens. Seferis received many honours and prizes, among them honorary doctoral degrees from the universities of CambridgeOxfordThessalonikiand Princeton InSeferis published a translation of T. Eliot 's The Waste Land. Seferis first visited Cyprus in November He immediately fell in love with the island, partly because of its resemblance, in its landscape, the mixture of populations, and in its traditions, to his childhood summer home in Skala Urla. His book of poems Imerologio Katastromatos III was inspired by the island, and mostly written there—bringing to an end a period of six or seven years in which Seferis George Seferis: Complete Poems not produced any poetry. Seferis changed the title in the edition of his poems. Politically, Cyprus was entangled in the dispute between the UK, Greece and Turkey over its international status. Over the next few years, Seferis made use of his position in the diplomatic service to strive towards a resolution of the Cyprus disputeinvesting a great deal of George Seferis: Complete Poems effort and emotion. This was one of the few areas in his life in which he allowed the personal and the political to mix. Seferis described his political principles as " liberal and democratic [or republican]. InSeferis was awarded George Seferis: Complete Poems Nobel Prize for Literature "for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture. But in his acceptance speech, Seferis chose rather to emphasise his own humanist philosophy, concluding: "When on his way to Thebes Oedipus encountered George Seferis: Complete Poems Sphinx, his answer to its riddle was: 'Man'. That simple word destroyed the monster. We have many monsters to destroy. George Seferis: Complete Poems us think of the answer of Oedipus. The other five finalists for the prize that year were W. After two years marked by widespread censorship, political detentions and torture, Seferis took a stand against the regime. On March 28,he made a statement on the BBC World Service, [6] with copies simultaneously distributed to every newspaper in Athens. In authoritative and absolute terms, he stated "This anomaly must end". He died in Athens, on September 20, The cause of death was reported to be pneumonia, aggravated by a stroke he had suffered after undergoing surgery for a bleeding ulcer about two months earlier. He is buried at First Cemetery of Athens. His house George Seferis: Complete Poems Pangrati district of central Athensjust next to the Panathinaiko Stadium of Athens, still stands today at Agras Street. Inthere was a dispute over the naming of a street in İzmir Yorgos Seferis Sokagi due to continuing ill-feeling over the Greco-Turkish War in the early s. I woke with this marble head in my hands; It exhausts my elbows and I don't know where to put it down. It was falling into the dream as I was coming out of the dream. So our life became one and it will be very difficult for it to separate again. Stephen King quotes several of Seferis's poems in epigraphs to his novel Salem's Lot. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel. Yale George Seferis: Complete Poems Press. Nobel Prize. Retrieved January 3, Retrieved September 10, The New York Times. September 21, Retrieved February 4, Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Eliot William Faulkner Bertrand Russell. Giorgos Seferis Greece. Hans D. Jensen Germany. 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