Complete Poems by George Seferis Valley Press Davis’s original poems evoke the

Davis’s original poems evoke the experiences of travel and of living in a culture in which one is a stranger

James offers a commentary on each of the eighty or so poems: sometimes a historical or critical note on the poem or its author

It charts the poet’s life from his Canadian roots to immigration to the UK

Maurice Riordan

and perhaps even to speak poetry aloud

Complete Poems by George Seferis Valley Press Davis’s original poems evoke theGeorge Seferis is the great Greek poet of the twentieth century, a classic among classics. The formal and thematic versatility of his work, its decisively modern inflections, call Eliots poems to mind: fastidious and expansive in equal measure. Like Eliots deep rooted Modernism, Seferiss never loses touch with the stones and inscriptions of the past. He writes for his and our time, poetically and politically alert: culture can free us or, misapplied,