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George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel

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Evgeny Zamyatin that ‘real literature can be created only by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and sceptics, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries’. Discuss – as they say – with reference to the life of George Seferis, the Greek poet.

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