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Modern Greek Poetry by DALVEN, Rae (translator and editor) - 1949

by DALVEN, Rae (translator and editor)

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Modern Greek Poetry by DALVEN, Rae (translator and editor) - 1949

Modern Greek Poetry

by DALVEN, Rae (translator and editor)

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New York: Gaer Associates Inc.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. A first edition of this English-language anthology of modern poetry by Greek poets, as collected, translated and edited by Rae Dalven. The original poems were written both in traditional Greek ("katharevousaa") and the more modern "demotic" Greek. With introductory statements by William Rose Benét and Mark Van Doren, as well as introductory essays by Davlven, in which she discusses the poems which follow. --- In dark red and grey cloth-covered boards with titling in silver to cover and spine. Volume has no dust jacket. --- With discreet Boston-area bookseller label to front free endpaper, underlinings and pencilings in red in several locations, else a clean, tightly-bound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 320 pages .
  • Bookseller Bluebird Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Gaer Associates Inc.
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1949

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MODERN GREEK POETRY [INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]

by Dalven, Rae (Transl & Ed) ; Benet, William Rose, and Mark Van Doren (Statements)

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New York: Gaer Associates, 1949. 1st Edition. Original boards in Dust Jacket, 8vo, 320 pages. 16-word inscription by the author, thanking the recipient "for her help in ‘A Season in Hell. ' Rae Dalven, (1905 - 1992) was a Romaniot "Jewish-American translator and historian.... Known for her translations of Greek poetry, such as, Modern Greek Poetry (1949) ... She also wrote two plays, A Season in Hell, which concerned the lives of the French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine, was successfully produced for the stage (1950) and Our Kind of People (1991) , an autobiographical production concerning a family of Jewish-Greek immigrants. Dalven's especial [sic] interest was in the history of the Jews in Greece, particularly the northern Ioannina community, who traced their ancestry to the ancient Palestinians (c300 BC) and had retianed their own customs and religious liturgy. She edited the academic journal the Sephardic Scholar and served as president of the American Society of Sephardic Studies" (abitofhistory,… Read More
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