Introduction to Modern Greek Literature - Beaton, Roderick (Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language, and Literature, and Head of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language, and Literature, and Hea

This is a fully revised edition of Roger Beaton's 1994 introduction to the poetry and fiction published in Greece since national independence in 1821. It is the first full-length study to be devoted to the literature of this period seen as a whole and including developments up to the present day. No knowledge of Greek is assumed and all quotations are given in both Greek and English.