Ivask, Ivar, ed. Odysseus Elytis: Analogies of Light. Critical Studies on the Nobel Prize Winner. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. x, 116 p.

ISBN 080611715X;080611715X; 080611715X; 9780806116921 pbk

Includes: Preface (pp. ix-x); Ivar Ivask, "Analogies of Light: The Greek Poet Odysseus Elytis" (pp. 3-6); "Odysseus Elytis on His Poetry—From an Interview with Ivar Ivask", trs. Ivar and Astrid Ivask (from the French) (pp. 7-15).

A short anthology of translations from Elytis's works:

"Four poems from Stepchildren (1974)", tr. Kimon Friar (pp. 21-23).

"Picasso's Equivalences" (essay), trs. Ivar and Astrid Ivask (from the French) (pp. 24-26).

"Selections from the Open Book", tr. Theofanis G. Stavrou (pp. 27-33).

"from the Book of Signs" (aphorisms), tr. Kimon Friar (pp. 34-35).

Critical perspectives: Lawrence Durrell, "The Poetry of Elytis" (p. 43); Andonis Decavalles, "Eros: His Power, Forms and Transformations in the Poetry of Odysseus Elytis" (pp. 45-58); Hans Rudolph Hilty, "Odysseus Elytis: A Contemporary Greek Poet" (pp. 59-63), tr. from the German by William Riggan; Christopher Robinson, "Elytis and French Poetry 1935-1945" (pp. 64-69); Robert Jouanny, "Aspects of Surrealism in the Works of Odysseus Elytis" (pp. 70-74), tr. from the French by Seymour Feiler; Vincenzo Rotolo, "The Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign: The Transition from the Early to the Later Elytis" (pp. 75-80); Edmund Keeley, "The Voices of Elytis's The Axion Esti" (pp. 81-86); M. Byron Raizis, "1979 Nobel Laureate Odysseus Elytis: From The Axion Esti to Maria Neféli" (pp. 87-95); Theofanis G. Stavrou, "Notes on the Open Book of Odysseus Elytis" (pp. 96-98); Kimon Friar, "The Imagery and Collages of Odysseus Elytis" (pp. 99-107).

"Chronology" (pp. 109-111). "Selected Bibliography (1939-1979)" (pp. 113-116). Illustrations.

This volume is a reproduction of the Autumn 1975 special issue of Books Abroad {4.1542} with an updated chronology and an updated bibliography (both up to 1979). Also new herein is the study by M. Byron Raizis on pp. 87-95.