Dionysios Solomos. The Free Besieged and Other Poems. Translated by Peter Thompson, Roderick Beaton, Peter Colaclides, Michael Green and David Ricks. Edited with an Introduction by Peter Mackridge. Second edition. Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2015. xxxiii, 93 p. Bilingual edition.

ISBN 1910323322; 9781910323328 pbk

Includes: Preface (pp. vii-viii); Introduction (pp. ix-xxxiii); "Note on the Second Edition" (p. xxxiii).

«Ο Κρητικός» / "The Cretan", tr. Roderick Beaton (pp. 1-9); «Οι Ελεύθεροι Πολιορκισμένοι» / "The Free Besieged": Draft I (pp. 11-17), Draft II (pp. 18-45), Draft III (pp. 46-55), tr. Peter Thompson; «Η Γυναίκα της Ζάκυθος» / "The Woman of Zakynthos", trs. Peter Colaclides and Michael Green (pp. 57-85); «Ο Πόρφυρας» / "The Shark", tr. David Ricks (pp. 87-89); «Από το "Carmen Seculare" (L'Arbero Mistico)» / from "Carmen Saeculare", or, "The Mystic Tree", tr. Roderick Beaton (pp. 91-93).

The second edition contains "a few minor adjustments to the Introduction and" ... "a number of corrections to the Greek and Italian text of the poems to bring it closer to what Solomos wrote. The translations remain unchanged from the first edition." (p. xxxiii).

For the 1st ed. see {4.4949}.