CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature: 

WORKFLOW CURRENT COLLABORATORS:

Dia M. L. Philippides
Research Professor and Professor Emerita
Boston College
Wim F. Bakker
Professor Emeritus
University of Amsterdam
Anna Kijas
Senior Digital Scholarship Librarian
BC Libraries
Benjamin Florin
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Web Developer – Systems Manager
BC Libraries
Peter Klapes (BC ’19)
Undergraduate Research Assistant

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DATA:
CENSUS UPDATES AT:
http://censusofmoderngreekliterature.org/

Towards Open Access

publication of the CENSUS
of Modern Greek Literature
(in English)

Author of Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis, in his study.

Photo reproduced by permission of the Historical Museum of Crete

Design by MTS Graphics at Boston College


THE CENSUS PROJECT
The CENSUS project currently aims at publishing a second, expanded edition of the original
monograph published in 1990: Dia M. L. Philippides, Check-list of ENglish-Language Sources
Useful in the Study of Modern Greek Literature (1824-1987). New Haven, CT: Modern Greek
Studies Association, 1990. 248 p. Second printing 1992. ISBN 0912105011; 9780912105017.
The forthcoming CENSUS includes references
to all the translations and all the studies in
English that relate to Modern Greek literature
(from AD 1200 to the present), published
anywhere in the world (1813-present). Indexing
aims to render the bibliographic collection
(now in MS Word files) into a machine-
readable format that is searchable, extensible,
and accessible online as an open-access
project (pdf and database).
An important new feature of the CENSUS
is that it fully indexes the contents of large
collective volumes such as anthologies, thus
facilitating detailed searches (both simple
and complex). Special attention is given to
indexing all personal names by function (e.g.,
creative author, translator, editor, etc.) and to
identifying all creative authors (by authority
form and variant spellings).
Audience
This bibliographic collection hopes to function
as a standard work of reference: for students,
faculty, translators, publishers, libraries,
scholars and general readers everywhere in
the English speaking world who might be
interested in the contemporary literature
of Greece.
Two Greek poets, George Seferis and
Odysseas Elytis, pictured above (r-l), have won
the Nobel prize for literature (1963, 1979)
The census and digital
scholarship
This project in the Digital Humanities aims at
releasing three products (an online pdf file, a print
volume, and an online database). Its full electronic
indexing will enable users to track and visualize
(overall and in detail) the trends and patterns of
Modern Greek literature throughout the English-
speaking world: by geographic locations, time,
contributing person names and functions, literary
genres, etc. The resulting new observations are likely
to influence the future translation and scholarly
studies of Modern Greek literature in English.
An example of an anthology,
with its contents.
2.89 A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000.
Selected and Edited by: Peter Bien, Peter
Constantine, Edmund Keeley, Karen Van
Dyck. Introduction by Peter Bien. A Note
on Translation by Karen Van Dyck. Kimon
Friar’s translations edited by Matthew Jen-
nett. River Vale, NJ: Cosmos Publishing Co.,
2004. Bilingual edition. xxviii, 993 p. ISBN
1932455000; 9781932455007
‘Poems’ include:
C.P. CAVAFY (1863-1933):
“Waiting for the Barbarians” [tr. Edmund
Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 2-5);
“The City” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip
Sherrard] (pp. 4-5);
“The God Abandons Antony” [tr. Edmund
Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 6-7);
“Ionic” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sher-
rard] (pp. 6-7);
“Ithaka” [tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sher-
rard] (pp. 8-11);
“Alexandrian Kings” [tr. Edmund Keeley and
Philip Sherrard] (pp. 10-13);
“In the Evening” [tr. Edmund Keeley and
Philip Sherrard] (pp. 12-13);
“For Ammonis, Who Died at 29, in 610” [tr.
Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp.
14-15);
…
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS (1883-1957):
from The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel: “The
Prologue” [tr. Kimon Friar] (pp. 40-45);
“El Greco” [tr. Peter Bien] (pp. 44-53);
…
ODYSSEUS ELYTIS (1911-1996):
“Ode to Santorini” [tr. Edmund Keeley and
Philip Sherrard] (pp. 358-361);
“Aegean Melancholy” [tr. Edmund Keeley
and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 360-363);
“The Mad Pomegranate Tree” [tr. Edmund
Keeley and Philip Sherrard] (pp. 364-367);
…