While traveling the road to Elbasan, Keeley and his companions seek to learn about the terrible fifty years of physical and spiritual drought brought on by the Stalinist regime of Enver Hoxha and to see the first steps Albania has taken toward a more... [More...]

In September, 1944, near the village of Hortiati in Macedonian Greece the death of a German soldier in an ambush by a guerrilla unit brought on a Wehrmacht retaliation that resulted in the massacre of one hundred and forty-six villagers, sixty-nine of whom... [More...]

Keeley has had a lifelong relationship with Greece, beginning with his childhood, when his father served in the diplomatic corp. "Borderlines is his memoir of Greece, its life, culture, writers and people. It traces his childhood through the war years,... [More...]

This anthology is composed of revised translations selected from five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Keeley and Sherrard during the 1960s and '70s. Poems chosen are those that translate most successfully into English and that are... [More...]

The personal and artistic encounters of Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell with Greek culture on the eve of World War II, recalled by a literary companion
In the looming shadow of an oppressive dictatorship and imminent world war, George Seferis and George... [More...]

C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually the heart of a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the... [More...]

In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the poems published in Princeton's earlier bilingual edition,... [More...]

The radiant light of Greece in the 1930s—its landscape and its poetry, as witnessed in the dark years when it was almost extinguished—is explored in this remarkable work of cultural history and imaginative criticism.

Hal Gogarty, a seventeen-year-old American, arrives in Salonika, Greece, with his family as World War II is looming in Europe. He falls in love with Magda Sevillas, his tutor in German. She is a brilliant, copper-haired woman of twenty who is half Greek and... [More...]