Books Should Be Free Loyal Books Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBook Downloads |
|
Life Immovable First Part By: Kostes Palamas (1859-1943) |
---|
![]()
Punctuation, spelling and obvious printer's errors have been corrected.
Footnotes from the original text have been collated at the end of this
e book and references to them have been amended according to the new
footnote numbering used in this e book.
[Illustration: Kostes Palamas]
KOSTES PALAMAS LIFE IMMOVABLE
FIRST PART
TRANSLATED BY ARISTIDES E. PHOUTRIDES
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR
CAMBRIDGE
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1919
COPYRIGHT, 1919
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
TO MRS. EVELETH WINSLOW THIS VOLUME OF TRANSLATIONS IS DEDICATED AS A TOKEN OF HER
APPRECIATION OF THE POET'S WORK
PREFACE
The translations contained in the present volume were undertaken since
the beginning of the great war when communication with Greece and
access to my sources of information were always difficult and at times
impossible. In hastening to present them to the English speaking
public before discussing them with the poet himself and my friends in
Athens, I am only yielding to the urgent requests of friends on both
sides of the Atlantic who have regarded my delay with justifiable
impatience. I am thoroughly conscious of the shortcomings that were
bound to result from the above difficulties and from the interruption
caused by my two years' service in the American army; and were it not
for the encouragement and loyal assistance of those interested in my
work it would have been impossible for me to bring it at all before
the public. My earnest effort has been to be as faithful to the poet
as possible, and for this reason I have not attempted to render rime,
a dangerous obstacle to a natural expression of the poet's thought and
diction. But I hope that the critics will judge my work as that of a
mere pioneer. I know there is value in the theme; and if this value is
made sufficiently evident to arouse the interest of poetry lovers in
the achievements of contemporary Greece I shall have reaped my best
reward. I wish to express my thanks to Dr. Christos N. Lambrakis of Athens
for the information which he has always been willing to furnish me
regarding various dark points in the work translated; to Mrs. Eveleth
Winslow of Washington for many valuable suggestions and criticisms;
and above all to Professor Clifford H. Moore of Harvard University
for the interest he has shown in the work and the readiness with which
he has found time in the midst of his duties to take charge of my
manuscript in my absence and to assist in seeing it through the press. ARISTIDES E. PHOUTRIDES. WASHINGTON, D.C.
July 7, 1919.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION KOSTES PALAMAS, A NEW WORLD POET
LIFE IMMOVABLE, FIRST PART
TRANSLATIONS LIFE IMMOVABLE, INTRODUCTORY POEM
FATHERLANDS FATHERLANDS, I XII
THE SONNETS
EPIPHANY
MAKARIA
THE MARKET PLACE
LOVES
WHEN POLYLAS DIED
TO PETROS BASILIKOS
SOLDIER AND MAKER
THE ATHENA RELIEF
THE HUNTRESS RELIEF
A FATHER'S SONG
TO THE POET L. MAVILES
IMAGINATION
MAKARIA'S DEATH
TO PALLIS FOR HIS "ILIAD"
HAIL TO THE RIME
THE RETURN DEDICATION
THE TEMPLE
THE HUT
THE RING
THE CORD GRASS FESTIVAL
THE FAIRY
OUT IN THE OPEN LIGHT
FIRST LOVE
THE MADMAN
OUR HOME
THE DEAD
THE COMRADE
RHAPSODY
IDYL
AT THE WINDMILL
WHAT THE LAGOON SAYS
PINKS
RUINS
PENELOPE
A NEW ODE BY THE OLD ALCAEUS
FRAGMENTS FROM THE SONG TO THE SUN IMAGINATION
THE GODS
MY GOD
HELEN
THE LYRE
GIANTS' SHADOWS
THE HOLY VIRGIN IN HELL
SUNRISE
DOUBLE SONG
THE SUN BORN
ON THE HEIGHTS OF PARADISE
THE STRANGER
AN ORPHIC HYMN
THE POET
KRISHNA'S WORDS
THE TOWER OF THE SUN
A MOURNING SONG
PRAYER OF THE FIRST BORN MEN
THOUGHT OF THE LAST BORN MEN
MOLOCH
ALL THE STARS
ARROWS
VERSES OF A FAMILIAR TUNE THE BEGINNING
THE PARALYTIC ON THE RIVER'S BANK
THE SIMPLE SONG
THREE KISSES
ISMENE
THOUGHTS OF EARLY DAWN
TO A MAIDEN WHO DIED
TO THE SINNER
A TALK WITH THE FLOWERS
TO MY WIFE
THE ANSWER
THOUGHT
THE SINNER
THE END
THE PALM TREE THE PALM TREE
INTRODUCTION
KOSTES PALAMAS[1] A NEW WORLD POET And then I saw that I am the poet, surely a poet among many
a mere soldier of the verse, but always the poet who desires
to close within his verse the longings and questionings of the
universal man, and the cares and fanaticism of the citizen... Continue reading book >>
|
Genres for this book |
---|
Languages |
Poetry |
eBook links |
---|
Wikipedia – Kostes Palamas |
Wikipedia – Life Immovable First Part |
eBook Downloads | |
---|---|
ePUB eBook • iBooks for iPhone and iPad • Nook • Sony Reader |
Kindle eBook • Mobi file format for Kindle |
Read eBook • Load eBook in browser |
Text File eBook • Computers • Windows • Mac |
Review this book |
---|