Edmund Keeley

Edmund Leroy "Mike" Keeley (February 5, 1928 – February 23, 2022) was an American novelist, translator, and essayist, a poet, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English at Princeton University. He was a noted expert on the Greek poets C. P. Cavafy, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, and Yannis Ritsos, and on post-Second World War Greek history.

Life and career Keeley was born in Damascus, Syria, on February 5, 1928, the son of the American diplomat James Hugh Keeley, Jr. and Mathilde (Vossler) Keeley, a homemaker. His brother was the diplomat Robert V. Keeley. Keeley died from complications of a blood clot at his home in Princeton, New Jersey on February 23, 2022, at the age of 94. New Jersey Authors Award: 1960 For the novel The Libation (Citation) 1968 For George Seferis: Collected Poems, 1924-1955 1970 For the novel The Impostor 1962 Guinness Poetry Award selection 1972 Guggenheim Fellowship

Books

The Megabuilders of Queenston Park. Wild River Books. 2014. Requiem for Mary. Greenhouse Review Press. 2015. The Problem of Time and Other Poems. Greenhouse Review Press. 2018.

Editor and translator Six Poets of Modern Greece (With Philip Sherrard) Alfred A. Knopf, 1961 Vassilis Vassilikos, 'The Plant,' 'The Well,' 'The Angel': A Trilogy (With Mary Keeley) Knopf, 1964. Four Greek Poets (With Philip Sherrard) Penguin Books, 1965 George Seferis, Collected Poems: 1924-1955 (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1967 - C. P. Cavafy, Passions and Ancient Days (with George Savidis) Hogarth Press, 1972 Modern Greek Writers: Solomos, Calvos, Matesis, Palamas, Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Seferis, Elytis (With Peter Bien) Princeton University Press, 1972 C. P. Cavafy, Selected Poems (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1972 Odysseus Elytis, The Axion Esti (with George Savidis) Pittsburgh University Press, 1972 C. P. Cavafy, Three Poems of Passion (with George Savidis) Plain Wrapper Press, 1975 C. P. Cavafy, Collected Poems (With Philip Sherrard and George Savidis) Princeton University Press, 1975, revised edition, Princeton University Press, 1992. - Angelos Sikelianos, Selected Poems (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1979 Odysseus Elytis, Selected Poems Viking-Penguin, 1981 - The Dark Crystal: An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry (With Philip Sherrard) Denise Harvey & CO, 1981 Voices of Modern Greece: Selected Poems of C.P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1981 - Yannis Ritsos, Return and Other Poems Parallel Editions, 1983 C. P. Cavafy, A Selection of Poems (with Philip Sherrard) Camberwell Press, 1985 Yannis Ritsos, Exile and Return: Selected Poems, 1967-74 Ecco Press, 1985 The Legacy of R.P. Blackmur: Essays, Memoirs, Texts (with Edward T. Cone and Joseph Frank) Ecco Press, 1987 Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses Princeton University Press, 1991 The Essential Cavafy (With Philip Sherrard) Ecco Press, 1995 - George Seferis, Collected Poems, (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1995 George Seferis and Edmund Keeley: Correspondence, 1951-1971 Princeton University Library, 1997 A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000: Bilingual Edition (with Peter Bien, Peter Constantine, and Karen Van Dyck) Cosmos Publishing, 2004 - Selected Poems Of Odysseus Elytis (with Philip Sherrard) Anvil Press, 2007 The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (co-editor) W. W. Norton, 2009 ″Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems″,(with Philip Sherrard), second bilingual edition, Denise Harvey (publisher), 1996,