"Odysseus Elytis is a pure and dedicated poet, whose work is abundant, original, and thrilling", wrote Peter Levi when Elytis (1911-96) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1979. This is a representative selection of his poems, drawn from all periods of his distinguished career, tracing his development from early surrealism, through the dramatic style of The Axion Esti with its blend of spirituality and earthiness, up to his later work.
Philip Sherrard Books
September 23, 1922 – May 30, 1995
Philip Sherrard made Greece his permanent home after his education at Cambridge and London, where he also taught. A pioneer in modern Greek studies and a significant translator of Greece's major modern poets, his extensive writings explored Greek, philosophical, and literary themes. He also co-edited and translated the Philokalia, a five-volume collection of texts by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. Sherrard was a profound, committed, and imaginative thinker whose theological and metaphysical works examined subjects ranging from the spiritualizing potential of sexual love to the restoration of a sacred cosmology as the antidote to modern spiritual and ecological desolation.
Christianity. Lineaments of a sacred tradition
- 300 pages
- 11 hours of reading
"Lineaments - an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure, especially of a face. In this culmination of his life's work, the popular Orthodox lay theologian and translator of the Philokalia draws from the depths of tradition the "face" of Christianity as a world religion. Through a critique of the modern scientific and rationalist paradigm, Sherrard seeks to restore the foundations of Christian cosmology and ecology, and to reaffirm the prime importance of xacred symbolism and art. The book includes a creative engagement with non-Christian traditions, with the "metaphysical logic" of René Guenon, and with distinctively modern thinkers such as Nietzsche and Jung.Readers will, as always, find Sherrard's argument and insights fresh, provoking and challenging. The volume begins with a major biographical essay and commentary on Sherrard's oeuvre by Kallistos Ware."
The description for this book, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, will be forthcoming.
Byzance
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Set in Constantinople in the 11th century, this is a story of intrigue, romance and adventure in the decadent capital of the Byzantine empire. It features Haraldr Sigurdarson, a Viking prince, who gradually learns the ways of the cosmopolitan court, and rises to heights he never dreamed of.
