This man's translation of Murder in the Cathedral was published the same year as a collection that greatly resembled Eliot's Four Quartets.
This man's translation of Murder in the Cathedral was published the same year as a collection that greatly resembled Eliot's Four Quartets. In a poem by this man, the speaker "can't remember which murky river it was/that carried us away" and Â opens with the image of "Leaves like rusty tin." This author's poems "On a Sliver of Winter," "On Stage," and "Summer Solstice" make up his Three Secret Poems. Another poem by this author contains sections like Sensual Elpenor, and The house near the sea, and in it, the title bird says "Don't talk to me about the nightingale or the lark or the little wagtail." This poet of "Thrush" (*) wrote of how the title object takes root in the earth and becomes "a den of of secret water," in a poem titled "The Cistern." This man is the subject of a Roderick Beaton biography subtitled "Waiting for the Angel," which references a poem which opens "The angel - three years we waited for him." That poem contains the line "I woke with this marble head in my hands," and was read at the 2004 Olympics. For 10 points, identify the this poet of "Mythistorema," the first Greek to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
This man's translation of Murder in the Cathedral was published the same year as a collection that greatly resembled Eliot's Four Quartets.
Giorgos Seferis [or George Seferis or Georgios Seferiades]