Philip Sherrard fit de la Grèce sa demeure permanente après ses études à Cambridge et à Londres, où il enseigna également. Pionnier des études grecques modernes et traducteur de premier plan des grands poètes grecs modernes, ses nombreux ouvrages ont exploré des thèmes grecs, philosophiques et littéraires. Il a également coédité et traduit la Philocalie, une collection en cinq volumes de textes de maîtres spirituels de la tradition chrétienne orthodoxe. Sherrard fut un penseur profond, engagé et imaginatif dont les écrits théologiques et métaphysiques ont abordé des sujets allant du potentiel spirituel de l'amour sexuel à la restauration d'une cosmologie sacrée comme antidote à la désolation spirituelle et écologique moderne.
Set in Constantinople in the 11th century, this is a story of intrigue, romance and adventure in the decadent capital of the Byzantine empire. It features Haraldr Sigurdarson, a Viking prince, who gradually learns the ways of the cosmopolitan court, and rises to heights he never dreamed of.
"Lineaments - an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure, especially of a face. In this culmination of his life's work, the popular Orthodox lay theologian and translator of the Philokalia draws from the depths of tradition the "face" of Christianity as a world religion. Through a critique of the modern scientific and rationalist paradigm, Sherrard seeks to restore the foundations of Christian cosmology and ecology, and to reaffirm the prime importance of xacred symbolism and art. The book includes a creative engagement with non-Christian traditions, with the "metaphysical logic" of René Guenon, and with distinctively modern thinkers such as Nietzsche and Jung.Readers will, as always, find Sherrard's argument and insights fresh, provoking and challenging. The volume begins with a major biographical essay and commentary on Sherrard's oeuvre by Kallistos Ware."
"Odysseus Elytis is a pure and dedicated poet, whose work is abundant, original, and thrilling", wrote Peter Levi when Elytis (1911-96) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1979. This is a representative selection of his poems, drawn from all periods of his distinguished career, tracing his development from early surrealism, through the dramatic style of The Axion Esti with its blend of spirituality and earthiness, up to his later work.
The description for this book, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, will be forthcoming.
