Nikos Engonopoulos. Selected Poems. Translated with an introduction by David Connolly. Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library, 3. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Department of The Classics, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2016. lxiv, 311 p. [Bilingual edition].

ISBN 0674063449 hbk; 9780674063440 hbk

Contents: Panagiotis Roilos and Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, "Foreword" (pp. xiii-xiv); David Connolly, Introduction & Bibliography (pp. xv-lxxi).

Selected Poems:

From Do Not Distract the Driver [Μην ομιλείτε εις τον οδηγόν] (1938): "Trams and Acropolis" (pp. 2-5); "Do Not Distract the Driver" 'I, II' (pp. 6-7); "Tel Aviv" (pp. 8-9); "Osiris" (pp. 10-11); "Ship of the Forest" (pp. 12-15); "Steamrollers" (pp. 16-17); "Eleonora" (pp. 18-23); "Surrender" (pp. 24-25); "Love" (pp. 26-27); "There" (pp. 28-29);"The Secret Poet" (pp. 30-33); "Nocturnal Maria" (pp. 34-35).

From The Clavicembalos of Silence [Τα κλειδοκύμβαλα της σιωπής] (1939): "Sinbad the Sailor" (pp. 36-45); "Episode" (pp. 46-47); "The Clavicembalos of Silence" (pp. 48-59); "Pomegranates = SO4H2" (pp. 60-61); "The Life and Death of Poets" (pp. 62-67); "A Journey to Elbasan" 'I, II, III' (pp. 68-71); "The Shipwrecks' Plot" (pp. 72-73); "The Concrete of Heroic Maidens" (pp. 74-77); "The Psychoanalysis of Phantoms" (pp. 78-79); "Hydra" (pp. 80-85); "The Moment Midnight Strikes, Jef the Great Automaton ..." (pp. 86-87); "Just As" (pp. 88-93).

Bolivár: A Greek Poem [Μπολιβάρ, ένα ελληνικό ποίημα] (1944) (pp. 94-115).

From The Return of the Birds [Η επιστροφή των πουλιών] (1946): "The Voices" (pp. 116-123); "Noble and Sentimental Dance" (pp. 124-127); "The Return of Eurydice" (pp. 128-147); "Binary Automatism" (pp. 148-149); "Poem Devoid of Joy Dedicated to a Wonderful Woman Donator of Longing and Serenity" (pp. 150- 151); "Theano" (pp. 152-153); "Gardens in the Scorching Sun" (pp. 154-157); "Picasso" (pp. 158-163); "Vulture 1748" (pp. 164-167); "Eleonora II" (pp. 168-169); "Grief's Apprentice" (pp. 170-171).

From Eleusis [Έλευσις] (1948): "The Hawk" (pp. 172-173); "The Golden Plateaux" (pp. 174-177); "The New Laura" (pp. 178-181); "Hymn of Praise for the Women We Love" (pp. 182-189); "Poetry 1948" (pp. 190-191).

The Atlantic [Ο Ατλαντικός] (1954) (pp. 192-203).

From In the Flourishing Greek Tongue [Εν ανθηρώ Έλληνι λόγω] (1957): "The Memory" (pp. 204-205); "The Lover" (pp. 206-207); "Mercurius Bouas" (pp. 208-209); "Arcesilaus" (pp. 210-213); "On Elevation" (pp. 214-217); "To Let" (pp. 218-225); "The Kindness of People" (pp. 226-227); "News Concerning the Death of the Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca in a Ditch at Camino de la Fuente on 19 August 1936" (pp. 228-229); "Clelia or rather The Idyll on the Lagoon" (pp. 230-235); "Marcinelle" (pp. 236-237).

From In the Vale of Roseries [Στην κοιλάδα με τους ροδώνες] (1978): "On the Death of the Anthologist of 'Sublime Love'" (pp. 238-239); "Supplication" (pp. 240-241); "Close Your Eyes: Then All the Life of Old Will Pass before You …" (pp. 242-243); "The Surrealism of Interminable Life" (pp. 244-245); "A Dream: Life" (pp. 246-249); "On Life's Paths" (pp. 250-251); "Timon of Athens" (pp. 252-253); "Pandora's Box" (pp. 254-257); "The Torments of Love" (pp. 258-261); "To Constantine Bakeas" (pp. 262-263); "Orpheus" (pp. 264-267); "On Everything under the Sun and More" (pp. 268-269); "On Crocodile Cladas" (pp. 270-273); "Adelaïs of the Hierophants" (pp. 274-275); "Belisarius" (pp. 276-277); "Paraphasia or The Vale of Roseries" (pp. 278-279).

From Man: The Measure [Το μέτρον: ο άνθρωπος] (2005): "Man: the Measure" (pp. 280-281); "Confessions of the Land, of the Sea" (pp. 282-285).

Notes to the Poems (pp. 287-295).

Nikos Engonopoulos: Biographical data (1907-2007) (pp. 297-308); Index of Greek Poems (pp. 309-311).

The poetry selection of this edition is the same as in Νίκος Εγγονόπουλος. Ωραίος σαν Έλληνας: Ανθολογία ποιημάτων. Ανθολόγηση, μετάφραση στα αγγλικά και πρόλογος Ντέιβιντ Κόνολι. Με δεκατρείς πίνακες του Ν.Ε. / Nikos Engonopoulos. The Beauty of a Greek: Selected Poems. Selected, translated from the Greek and prefaced by David Connolly. With thirteen paintings by N.E. Αθήνα: ύψιλον / ypsilon, 2007. 234 p. [Bilingual edition], Cf. {4.1669}.