Seferis, Geōrgios

Japanese: セフェリス（英語表記）Seferis， Geōrgios

Born: March 1, 1900 in Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey)
Died: September 20, 1971. Greek poet from Athens. Real name Seferiadis. Studied in Athens and Paris, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1926 and served as a diplomat until he resigned as ambassador to the UK in 1962. He made his debut in the poetry world with the collection of poems Strofi (1931). He initially wrote fixed-form verse under the influence of French poetry, but moved to free verse around Mythistorima (35), and was later influenced by TS Eliot. His poetry explored the possibilities of Greek folk language to the fullest, and is rich in symbolism and contemplation, but sometimes difficult to understand. He preferred to take Greek mythology as his subject matter, and he sang of the modern world as an ancient world that still lives on in the poet himself. His representative works include Tetradio gymnasmaton (40), Imerologio katastromatos A, B, C (40, 44, 55), and Kichli (47). He also wrote many essays on Greek culture. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963.

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Japanese:

[生]1900.3.1. スミルナ(現トルコ，イズミル)
[没]1971.9.20. アテネ
ギリシアの詩人。本名 Seferiadis。アテネとパリで学び，1926年に外務省に入り，62年に駐英大使を辞すまで外交官生活をおくった。詩集『分岐点』 Strofi (1931) で詩壇に登場。最初はフランス詩の影響下に定型詩を書いたが，『ミシストリマ』 Mythistorima (35) の頃から自由詩に移り，その後は T.S.エリオットの影響を受けた。詩の言語はギリシア民衆語の可能性を極限まで追求したもので，象徴性に富み思索的であるが，ときとして難解。好んでギリシア神話に題材を取り，現代の世界も詩人自身のうちに生き続ける古代として歌われている。代表作は『練習帳』 Tetradio gymnasmaton (40) ，『航海日誌A，B，C』 Imerologio katastromatos A，B，C (40，44，55) ，『つぐみ』 Kichli (47) など。そのほか，ギリシア文化に関する評論集も数多い。 63年ノーベル文学賞受賞。

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