This absorbing book presents the picture of Greece from the fall of Constantinople to the arrival of Byron as seen through the eyes of English poets, essayists and travelers. The author shows how our conception of Greece has been molded by the feelings and opinions expressed by generations of writers when the country was under Turkish occupation and when its people, its temples and traditions were regarded as witnesses both to its ancient splendor and its contemporary sadness.

Fair Greece Sad Relic

Literature & Fiction

Spencer, Terence

World Literature

Denise Harvey

Lear's Corfu years coincide with the last years of the British Protectorate and his letters and previously unpublished journals written in Corfu, from which the text of this book is composed, form a commentary, as unique as it is biting and poignant. They also present a deeply moving account of an artist battling with his solitude in a world with whose values he is at odds.

Edward Lear, the Corfu years: A chronicle presented through his letters and journals (Tenth publication in the Romiosyni series)

LEAR, EDWARD

Hieromonk Gregorios, Koutloumousiou monastery, Mount Athos is the author of this new catechism. In the pages of this book, you will find a humble attempt to come, with the help of the Holy Fathers, to a closer understanding of the faith of the Church and to learn about the worship life celebrated in it, so that we can live the life in Christ more deeply. It is design to be of help to those who are diligently seeking the truth so as to enter the holy Church. While called an 'outline' it is actually an organized and brief explanation of the tenants of the Faith.

Orthodox Faith, Worship, and Life - Orthodox Christian Catechism: An Outline

Hieromonk Grēgorios

Poems by Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis, Elytis and Gatsos. This anthology brings together a selection from the works of the five poets who may be said to take pride of place in substantiating the Greek poetry achievement of the 20th century.

A Greek Quintet: Poems by Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis, Elytis And Gatsos

Poetry

The division of Christendom into the Greek East and the Latin West has its origins far back in history but its consequences still affect Europe, and thus Western Civilization. Sherrard's study seeks to indicate both the fundamental character and some of the consequences of this division. He points especially to the underlying metaphysical bases of Greek Christian thought, and contrasts them with those of the Latin West.

The Greek East and the Latin West

History

Sherrard, Philip

World

This book distils the author's experience, as a young traveller and later an anthropologist, of a way of life which, although seen here in a Greek context, was in its essentials once common throughout the world. Simple archetypal houses, terraced fields and plunging forests, the love of land and family, unceasing labour, a vivid communal life, and a continual drama of jokes and quarrels formed the texture of Greek village life for centuries until the changes of the last decades. The author has shown how the spiritual vision which evolved in these elemental conditions shaped people of great social dexterity, intuitive symbolic perception, and immense strength of character; and the result is not simply a work of scholarship, but the record of an inner journey.

Portrait of a Greek Mountain Village

Politics & Social Sciences

du-boulay-juliet

Social Sciences

The Description for this book, Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems, will be forthcoming.

Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems

The hillsides of Attica are stony and arid. Over-grazed in the past by goats and sheep, they have few trees and are covered in dense, pickly scrub. Relentless sun and often strong winds prevail for five months of the year, and in the spring and autumn months the miracle of the extraordinary variety and beauty of the Greek flora is revealed to the discerning eye. It was on such a hillside that the author, a Harvard University professor chose to make a garden. This book is the story of the making of that garden and a distillation of what she learnt and observed about the plants - both native and introduced - she grew there, a book which she wrote to assist other people wishing to make gardens in places with a "Mediterranean climate", believing that anything that grew under the difficult conditions prevailing on this Greek hillside would be almost certain to grow better elsewhere.

Making a Garden on a Greek Hillside

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Tyrwhitt, Mary Jaqueline

Gardening & Landscape Design

Lorenzatos is generally acknowledged to be the most important living man of letters in Greece. An essayist, poet and thinker, he is perhaps the last of his generation with a vision that is both deeply religious and humane. His profound knowledge of European literature and thought, and his familiarity with the writings and philosophy of the East, along with his thorough assimilation of the long Greek tradition, enable him to explore, with unusual insight, the spirit both of Europe and of modern Greece.This second edition of his essays to be published in English includes his studies on the Greek writers Papadiamandis, Sikelianos and Capetanakis, and on the architect Dimitris Pikionis; and it concludes with a lengthy and penetrating discussion of the American poet Ezra Pound, who visited Greece and met Lorenzatos in 1965.

Drama of Quality

Lorentzatos, Zesimos

History & Criticism

The revolutionary changes in mental outlook that took place in western Christendom four centuries ago, and that produced the modern scientific movement, are the major cause of the crisis in which the world finds itself today. By setting the modern scientific picture of the universe and man's place in it against the background of pre-Christian and Christian cosmology and anthropology, the author shows how our acceptance of this picture has literally enslaved us to a vast collective lie whose ramification in the major spheres of our thoughts and action cannot but vandalize and desecrate both ourselves and the world we live in.

Human Image World Image: The Death And Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

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