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Philip Sherrard (1922 - 1995)

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  • Philip Sherrard (1922–1995) lived his later years on the island of Evia. Among his many books perhaps the best-known are two studies of modern Greek literature, The Marble Threshing Floor and The Wound of Greece, and the later Edward Lear: The Corfu Years. With Edmund Keeley he translated the Complete Poems of George Seferis, the Selected Poems of Angelos Sikelianos and co-edited the Selected Poems of Odysseus Elytis.

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