"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 Libri
23 settembre 1922 – 30 maggio 1995
Philip Sherrard fece della Grecia la sua casa permanente dopo i suoi studi a Cambridge e Londra, dove anche insegnò. Pioniere negli studi greci moderni e importante traduttore dei principali poeti greci moderni, i suoi numerosi scritti esplorarono temi greci, filosofici e letterari. Coeditò e tradusse anche la Filocalia, una raccolta in cinque volumi di testi dei maestri spirituali della tradizione cristiana ortodossa. Sherrard fu un pensatore profondo, impegnato e fantasioso le cui opere teologiche e metafisiche esaminarono argomenti che spaziavano dal potenziale spiritualizzante dell'amore sessuale al ripristino di una cosmologia sacra come antidoto alla desolazione spirituale ed ecologica moderna.
Christianity. Lineaments of a sacred tradition
- 300pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
"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
- 192pagine
- 7 ore di lettura
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.
