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Title: Life Immovable
First Part

Author: Kostes Palamas

Translator: Aristides E. Phoutrides

Release Date: January 7, 2008 [EBook #24191]

Language: English

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KOSTES PALAMAS

LIFE IMMOVABLE
_FIRST PART_

TRANSLATED BY ARISTIDES E. PHOUTRIDES

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR

CAMBRIDGE
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1919

COPYRIGHT, 1919
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

TO MRS. EVELETH WINSLOW

THIS VOLUME OF TRANSLATIONS IS DEDICATED AS A TOKEN OF HER
APPRECIATION OF THE POET'S WORK

PREFACE

The translations contained in the present volume were undertaken since
the beginning of the great war when communication with Greece and
access to my sources of information were always difficult and at times
impossible. In hastening to present them to the English speaking
public before discussing them with the poet himself and my friends in
Athens, I am only yielding to the urgent requests of friends on both
sides of the Atlantic who have regarded my delay with justifiable
impatience. I am thoroughly conscious of the shortcomings that were
bound to result from the above difficulties and from the interruption
caused by my two years' service in the American army; and were it not
for the encouragement and loyal assistance of those interested in my
work it would have been impossible for me to bring it at all before
the public. My earnest effort has been to be as faithful to the poet
as possible, and for this reason I have not attempted to render rime,
a dangerous obstacle to a natural expression of the poet's thought and
diction. But I