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A long poem in the form of an Orthodox liturgy, moving from the creation of the world through the Greek war of the 1940s to a hymn of praise for the things of this world.
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Collected Poems
Seferis's poems, from Mythistorema to the poems of exile in the war years, in which the islands, the sea and the ruins of ancient Greece stand in for a modern country's grief.
Complete Poems
Quasimodo's poems from the hermetic lyrics of his Sicilian youth to the poems of war and Liberation that made his name.
New and Collected Poems
Seventy years of Miłosz's poems, from the Warsaw of the war years to old age in California and Kraków.
Canto General
Neruda's epic of the Americas, from their geology and first peoples through conquest and liberation to his own exile, including the sequence The Heights of Macchu Picchu.
Selected Poems
Poems from across Mistral's life, of lost love, motherhood and children, faith and the landscapes of Chile, in Ursula K. Le Guin's translation.
Anabasis
A long poem of a nameless conqueror's expedition across the deserts of Asia and the founding of a city, in T. S. Eliot's translation.
Cuttlefish Bones
Montale's first book of poems, of the harsh, sunlit Ligurian coast he grew up on and the search for a way out of a closed world.
A Longing for the Light
Selected poems from across Aleixandre's life, from the surrealist love poems of Destruction or Love to the late poems of memory and knowledge.
Four Quartets
Four long meditative poems, Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding, on time, faith and history, finished during the Second World War.
The Iliad
The rage of Achilles drives the climax of the Trojan War, and the grief that follows reshapes what heroism means.
My Sister, Life
The poems Pasternak wrote in the summer of 1917, between the two revolutions, of love, rain, gardens and trains.
O the Chimneys
Poems and verse dramas from Sachs's years in Swedish exile, mourning the Jews murdered in the Holocaust.