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Seferis

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Seferis
George. pen name of Georgios Seferiades. 1900--71, Greek poet and diplomat: Nobel prize for literature 1963


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The Nobel Prize-winning Greek Poet George Seferis once said, "Our country is small, but our tradition is vast.
For the modern Greek wanderers Seferis, Elytis and Kazantzakis, the Odyssey serves a centering function similar to the Romanian's Miorita, with this difference: the locus for the Greek writer's homesickness is a geographical nostalgia.
As far as what artists read, right now I'm doing a Cy Twombly exhibition, and his acquaintance with every thing from ancient Greek lyric poetry through Marlowe, Keats, and Mallarme to Modern poets I hadn't read, like George Seferis and C.
 
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