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Philip Sherrard

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Sherrard's first book was ''The Marble Threshing Floor'' (1956), an “introduction to modern Greek poetry for English-speaking readers, which, together with his translations, brought the poetry of Cavafy and Seferis, together with its cultural background, to the attention of the literary world.”<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950605/ai_n13986685/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1 OBITUARY: Philip Sherrard]</ref>. As a translator of Modern Greek poetry, he had a long and productive collaboration with Edmund Keeley, together publishing many books, among them ''Four Greek Poets'' (1966), the ''Collected Poems'' of George Seferis (1967) and of C.P. Cavafy (1975) and ''Selected Poems'' by Angelos Sikelianos (1979) and Odysseus Elytis (1981). The importance of these translations is indicated by the fact that both Seferis and Elytis went on to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, after their work had become known in the non-Greek-speaking world.<br>
A frequent theme in Sherrard’s writing was his impassioned attempt to avert an oncoming environmental catastrophe. He saw the world’s ecological crisis as evidence of a larger spiritual crisis and sought always to “emphasize the living relevance of the Orthodox spiritual tradition in a fragmented secular world.”<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950605/ai_n13986685/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1 OBITUARY: Philip Sherrard]</ref>. He produced a number of works developing this theme, including ''The Sacred in Life and Art'', ''Human Image: World Image: The Death and Resurrection of Sacred Cosmology'', and ''The Rape of Man and Nature''.<br>
Among the works for which he is best known (together with his collaborators [[Kallistos Ware ]] and Gerald Palmer) is the complete translation of the ‘’Philokalia’’, a compendium of mystical writings by the spiritual fathers of the Orthodox church. 1998 saw the posthumous publication of ''Christianity: Lineaments of a Sacred Tradition'', a collection of articles dealing with subjects such as Tradition, death and dying, the problem of evil, and the revival of contemplative [[hesychast]] spirituality.
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