This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of
Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Delving into travel writing ecocriticism translation and
allusion it offers a fresh comparative link between Greek modernity and Irish poetry that
counterbalances the preeminence of Greek antiquity in existing criticism. The first section
devoted to travel and landscape examines Mahon's modern perception of the Aegean inspired by
his travels to the Cyclades between 1974 and 1997 as well as Heaney's philhellenic
relationship with mainland Greece between 1995 and 2004. The second section offers a close
analysis of their C. P. Cavafy translations and compares George Seferis' original texts with
their creative rendition in the writings of the Irish poets. The book will appeal to readers of
poetry as well as those interested in the interactions between Ireland and Greece two
countries at the extreme points of Europe in times of crisis.
