George Seferis
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
George Seferis (Giorgos Sefiriades), 1900-1971, Greek poet. Educated at the Univ. of Paris, he returned to Greece, where he had a distinguished career as a diplomat, including service as ambassador to the United Nations (1956-57) and Great Britain (1957-62). His poetry is surrealistic and highly symbolic—at times cryptic—invoking classical Greek themes. Many of his poems explore the 20th-century Greek consciousness and way of life. His volumes of poetry include Strophé (1931) and Mithistoríma (1935, tr. 1960). He also produced a volume of essays on Greek poets and poetry, Dokimés (1944; tr. On the Greek Style, 1960). Seferis won the 1963 Nobel Prize in literature, the first Greek to do so.
Bibliography: See his Collected Poems, 1924-55 (1967); Three Secret Poems (tr. 1969); A Poet's Journal (tr. 1974).
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