Takes on Arcadia

From: Parnassus : Poetry in Review | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Stephen Minta, On a Voiceless Shore: Byron in Greece. Henry Holt 1998. 292 pp. $25.00

David Solway, The Anatomy of Arcadia. Press 1992. 290 pp $18.00

Patricia Storace, Dinner with Persephone. Pantheon 1996. 398 pp. $25.00

"The ancient remains and the contemporary sorrow," wrote George Seferis, one of the greatest of modern Greek poets, capturing the poignant contrasts that await the traveler to Greece. Freud compared the psychoanalyst's excavations to those of the archaeologist: Layer after layer must be uncovered until the core, the mystery of the self, is laid bare. Once illuminated, ...

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