The Fourth Dimension /
Ritsos, Yannis
The Fourth Dimension / Yannis Ritsos. - 1 online resource (348 p.) - Princeton Modern Greek Studies ; 10 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Window -- Winter Clarity -- Chronicle -- Moonlight Sonata -- Agamemnon -- Orestes -- The Dead House -- The Return of Iphigenia -- Under the Shadow of the Mountain -- Chrysothemis -- Persephone -- Ismene -- Ajax -- Philoctetes -- Helen -- Phaedra -- When the Stranger Comes -- NOTES TO THE POEMS
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In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, "Moonlight Sonata." Ritsos, rightly, regarded the The Fourth Dimension as his finest achievement. It is now presented to English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety. From "Philoctetes" All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about heroes. Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep, slipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hallwhere glasses and voices sparkled, and the veilof an unseen dancer rippled silentlylike a diaphanous, whirling wallbetween life and death. This throbbingour childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shieldsetched on white walls by slow moonlight.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691024653 9781400884407
10.1515/9781400884407 doi
Greek poetry, Modern.
POETRY / European / General.
Aegisthus. Aeschylus. Anachronism. Annoyance. Asthma. Atreus. Bay leaf. Bed bug. Blindman. Bloody Bones. Brauron. Bryaxis. Calchas. Castor and Pollux. Cemetery. Chandelier. Chthonian (Cthulhu Mythos). Clothing. Clytemnestra. Cold cream. Conflagration. Corset. Cover Her Face. Cowardice. Cyane. Dionysus. Drawing room. Earring. East Room. Eleusinian Mysteries. Erinyes. Eros. Euripides. Fireplace. Forehead. Furniture. Garret. God Knows (novel). Graziella. Greasy hair. Greek mythology. Haemon. Handkerchief. Hanging. Heart failure. Humiliation. Hurrying. Hyperbole. Keening. Laughter. Lion Gate. Mansion. Mead. Meanness. Metempsychosis. Military parade. Mothball. Mourning. My Bed. Mycenae. Napkin. Neurosis. Odor. Odyssey. Oil lamp. Pallor. Poetry. Porcelain. Priam. Pricking. Putto. Pylades. Roast chicken. Sacred bull. Seven Against Thebes. Shirt. Slavery. Snoring. Soliloquy. Sophocles. Stairs. Symplegades. Tablecloth. Tattoo. Tecmessa. The First Man. The Other Hand. Theoclymenus. Theseus. Threshing floor. Tray. Trireme. Trojan War. Twelve Olympians. Two Old Men. Urine. Venus Anadyomene. Vinegar. Wooden horse (device). Wrinkle.
889.132
The Fourth Dimension / Yannis Ritsos. - 1 online resource (348 p.) - Princeton Modern Greek Studies ; 10 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Window -- Winter Clarity -- Chronicle -- Moonlight Sonata -- Agamemnon -- Orestes -- The Dead House -- The Return of Iphigenia -- Under the Shadow of the Mountain -- Chrysothemis -- Persephone -- Ismene -- Ajax -- Philoctetes -- Helen -- Phaedra -- When the Stranger Comes -- NOTES TO THE POEMS
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, "Moonlight Sonata." Ritsos, rightly, regarded the The Fourth Dimension as his finest achievement. It is now presented to English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety. From "Philoctetes" All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about heroes. Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep, slipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hallwhere glasses and voices sparkled, and the veilof an unseen dancer rippled silentlylike a diaphanous, whirling wallbetween life and death. This throbbingour childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shieldsetched on white walls by slow moonlight.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691024653 9781400884407
10.1515/9781400884407 doi
Greek poetry, Modern.
POETRY / European / General.
Aegisthus. Aeschylus. Anachronism. Annoyance. Asthma. Atreus. Bay leaf. Bed bug. Blindman. Bloody Bones. Brauron. Bryaxis. Calchas. Castor and Pollux. Cemetery. Chandelier. Chthonian (Cthulhu Mythos). Clothing. Clytemnestra. Cold cream. Conflagration. Corset. Cover Her Face. Cowardice. Cyane. Dionysus. Drawing room. Earring. East Room. Eleusinian Mysteries. Erinyes. Eros. Euripides. Fireplace. Forehead. Furniture. Garret. God Knows (novel). Graziella. Greasy hair. Greek mythology. Haemon. Handkerchief. Hanging. Heart failure. Humiliation. Hurrying. Hyperbole. Keening. Laughter. Lion Gate. Mansion. Mead. Meanness. Metempsychosis. Military parade. Mothball. Mourning. My Bed. Mycenae. Napkin. Neurosis. Odor. Odyssey. Oil lamp. Pallor. Poetry. Porcelain. Priam. Pricking. Putto. Pylades. Roast chicken. Sacred bull. Seven Against Thebes. Shirt. Slavery. Snoring. Soliloquy. Sophocles. Stairs. Symplegades. Tablecloth. Tattoo. Tecmessa. The First Man. The Other Hand. Theoclymenus. Theseus. Threshing floor. Tray. Trireme. Trojan War. Twelve Olympians. Two Old Men. Urine. Venus Anadyomene. Vinegar. Wooden horse (device). Wrinkle.
889.132