DENISE HARVEY AND COMPANY

THIS DIALECTIC OF BLOOD AND LIGHT
'... this dialectic of blood and light which is the history of your people...' (Sherrard to Seferis, 20 March 1950) Philip Sherrard first came across George Seferis's poetry when as a young man still in the army he was transferred to Greece in 1946. It made such a powerful impression on him that when he returned to England he started corresponding with Seferis, began translating his poetry into English, and ultimately decided to do his PhD on modern Greek poetry. Much later Sherrard was to translate, together with Edmund Keeley, Seferis's...
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AROUND THE LAGOON
"AROUND THE LAGOON", which Papadiamandis first published in two instalments in the magazine "Estia" in May 1 892, is one of his most finely crafted and densely written stories. A realistic setting and a flimsy plot are used to support a wealth of highly symbolic content. The physical descriptions of the terrain in Papadiamandis's story are detailed and precise enough for us to imagine the natural setting in our mind's eye. The lagoon around which the story is set is situated immediately to the east of Skiathos town and is separated from th...
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LAND OF AEOLIA
This present translation brings one of the most beloved works of modern Greek literature to readers of English for the first time in its entirety. Land of Aeolia tells the story of the authors childhood summers in Anatolia before World War I, before the Greek genocide, the Greco-Turkish war, the authors captivity by the Turks, and before the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey in 1922 that led to the permanent loss of his homeland. It is a testament to the power of literature to evoke that which is irrevocably lost. In this s...
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CHRISTIANITY AND EROS
In spite of the fact that marriage is recognized as a sacrament by the Church, the attitude of Christian thought towards the sexual relationship and its spiritualizing potentialities has been in practice singularly limited and negative. From the start Christian authors have been ill at ease with the whole subject. Sexual activity tended to be seen as a sign of man's sinful and degenerate state and the modern Christian is taught to distinguish between love in the New Testament sense -agape- and "eros", and to see "eros" as a debased form of...
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MOUNT ATHOS
TWELVE YEARS HAVE PASSED since I wrote the Preface to the first edition of this book. I welcome the opportunity to prepare a second edition and to add a new concluding chapter in which I have been able to recount and reflect on the changes that have taken place on Mount Athos over these years. I have also made a number of changes to the original text, for many of which I am indebted to the kindness of friends and reviewers, and I have updated the Bibliography. I am grateful to Denise Harvey not only for undertaking publication of the secon...
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THE CORFU YEARS
When Edward Lear first visited Corfu in April 1848, the island had already been under British rule for thirty-three years: it was in 1815, through the Treaty of Paris, that Corfu and the other Ionian Islands became 'a single, free, and independent state under the exclusive protection of His Britannic Majesty'. But this conversion to British rule was only yet another variation in the pattern of the island's history of domination by foreign powers. The most influential of these powers where the general character of the island - and indeed of...
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