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took power in Greece after a coup d'état. After two years marked by widespread censorship, political detentions and torture, Seferis took a stand against the regime. On March 28, 1969, he made a statement on the BBC World Service, with copies simultaneously distributed to every newspaper in Athens.
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He returned to Athens in 1925 and was admitted to the Royal Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the following year. This was the beginning of a long and successful diplomatic career, during which he held posts in England (1931–1934) and
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in November 1953. 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
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has decreed that Cyprus shall be his home) made clear the optimistic sense of homecoming Seferis felt on discovering the island. Seferis changed the title in the 1959 edition of his poems.
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for Literature "for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture." Seferis was nominated in total four times for the Nobel Prize.
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In 2004, the band Sigmatropic released "16 Haiku & Other Stories," an album dedicated to and lyrically derived from Seferis's work. Vocalists included recording artists
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both nominated in 1962 and it was the 1963 nomination again by Eyvind Johnson that won him the prize. Seferis was the first Greek to receive the prize (followed later by
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was inspired by the island, and mostly written there–bringing to an end a period of six or seven years in which Seferis had not produced any poetry. Its original title
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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
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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 1957 to 1962.
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trans. Rex Warner and Th.D. Frangopoulos. (1966) London: Bodley Head, reprinted (1982, 1992, 2000) Limni (Greece): Denise Harvey (Publisher),
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trans. Rex Warner. (1960) London: Bodley Head; Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company.
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This Dialectic of Blood and Light, George Seferis – Philip Sherrard, An Exchange: 1946–1971
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At his funeral, huge crowds followed his coffin through the streets of Athens, singing
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Seferis did not live to see the end of the junta in 1974 as a direct result of
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So our life became one and it will be very difficult for it to separate again.
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Politically, Cyprus was entangled in the dispute between the UK, Greece and
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trans. Athan Anagnostopoulos. (1975) London: Harvard University Press. ISBN
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In authoritative and absolute terms, he stated "This anomaly must end".
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trans. Manolis (Emmanuel Aligizakis). (2012) Surrey: Libros Libertad.
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In 1999, there was a dispute over the naming of a street in İzmir
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quotes several of Seferis's poems as epigraphs in his 1975 novel
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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
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It was falling into the dream as I was coming out of the dream.
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February 29] 1900 – September 20, 1971), was a Greek
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on two of his London homes – 51 Upper Brook Street, and at 7
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It exhausts my elbows and I don't know where to put it down.
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On the Greek Style: Selected Essays on Poetry and Hellenism
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George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel – A Biography
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(1982). 605:was featured in the Opening Ceremony of the 3294:Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Greece 3274:Ambassadors of Greece to the United Kingdom 983:No. 12, Spring 1983, pp. 47 & 48, 849: 837: 825: 813: 801: 782: 770: 758: 746: 734: 722: 710: 698: 686: 674: 3003: 2989: 1510: 1496: 1476: 1453:"George Seferis, The Art of Poetry No. 13" 889:. (1995) London: Anvil Press Poetry. ISBN 220:(Γεώργιος Σεφεριάδης; March 13  [ 613:I woke with this marble head in my hands; 306:. Seferis was also greatly influenced by 3079:International Committee of the Red Cross 528: 417: 3314:Burials at the First Cemetery of Athens 1147: 895:, trans. E. Keeley, P. Sherrard (1981) 858: 574:due to continuing ill-feeling over the 14: 3231: 1178: 1100: 1050: 2984: 1491: 1183:. Yale University Press. p. 456. 1181:George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel 369:Cyprus, where it was ordained for me… 211: 1483:Some Notes on Modern Greek Tradition 1410:. 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Eliot," in 1235:"Giorgos Seferis - Banquet Speech" 939:, trans. by Susan Matthias (2007). 865:George Seferis's 'On a Winter Ray' 407: 25: 3330: 1444: 943: 426:In 1963, Seferis was awarded the 969:Black, David, (1983), review of 854:) (published posthumously, 2007) 842:) (published posthumously, 1974) 173: 154: 40: 1421:Loulakaki-Moore, Irene (2010). 1368: 1342: 1328: 1296: 1275: 1253: 1227: 275:, and later a professor at the 1464:Listen to Seferis on the BBC ( 1213: 1187: 1172: 1154:Comparative Literature Studies 1141: 1094: 1044: 1030: 1016: 1001: 645:wrote a piece for solo flute, 414:1963 Nobel Prize in Literature 13: 1: 3304:Nobel laureates in Literature 1399:16:1 (January 2009), 146–60 ( 1387: 485: 760:Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος ΙΙΙ 513:' setting of Seferis's poem 444:Athanasius Trypanis Trypanis 365:Imerologio Katastromatos III 242: 7: 1451:Edmund Keeley (Fall 1970). 1013:, Peter Lang, 2007, p. 160. 1010:Peripheral (Post) Modernity 937:Six Nights on the Acropolis 834:Six Nights on the Acropolis 736:Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος ΙΙ 330:, Egypt, South Africa, and 232:of the 20th century, and a 10: 3335: 3319:University of Paris alumni 3289:Translators of T. 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Aidin Vilayet
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Greece
Greek
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Modernism
Generation of the '30s
Nobel Prize in Literature

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Greek
[ˈʝorɣosseˈferis]
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poet and diplomat
Greek poets
Nobel
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Smyrna
Asia Minor
Aidin Vilayet
Ottoman Empire
İzmir
lawyer
University of Athens
Venizelist
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