From: World Literature Today | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Fotis Dhimitrakopoulos has recently been specializing in meticulous editions of philological items and documents pertaining or related to major writers and their texts. In "George Seferis-Kypros Chrysanthis and 'The Cats of St. Nicholas'" he has gathered all the necessary documents that cast light on the controversy resulting from Chrysanthis's failure to publish that poem in his periodical Pnevmatiki Kypros (Cultural Cyprus) in 1969. The poem was finally published elsewhere that same year in English and in Greek.

A recognized man of letters and a pediatrician, Chrysanthis was ...