Complete Poems by George Seferis Helen Mort a world that is both

a world that is both vulnerable and resilient

’ – Peter Sansom

but also grit

McMillan asks in one poem

Complete Poems by George Seferis Helen Mort a world that is bothGeorge 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,