Complete Poems by George Seferis Gerrie Fellows  Poetry Book Society Bulletin

 Poetry Book Society Bulletin

Thomas Hardy’s Tess

foreboding and felicity

In this career-defining book

while retaining a deeply-felt sense of connection with a planet in peril

Complete Poems by George Seferis Gerrie Fellows  Poetry Book Society BulletinGeorge 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,