For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Greek islands have proved to be places of beauty and enchantment, but also of violence, of love and death. This title groups together poems and prose extracts in order to provide some sense of the delights and tragedies that are part of the history and the present of all Greek islands.
For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Greek Islands have proved to be places of beauty and enchantment, but also of violence, of love and death. Isles of Greece doesn't plot a course from island to island. Instead, it groups together poems and prose extracts in order to provide some sense of the glittering delights and dark tragedies that are part of the history and the present of all Greek islands.
John Lucas was Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He is a poet and translator, a former poetry editor at the New Statesman and he has written many critical works.
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