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Nikos Stangos was an influential figure in British art publishing for more than three decades, as well as a prolific Modern Greek poet. David Plante noted in 2010, "During his life, he published two volumes of poems in Greek, Poiēmata, 1966-77 (Athens: Kedros, 1979) and Ta Oikeia Perivallonta tōn Lexeōn (Athens: Kedros, 1981). Stangos confided that he was unwilling to play the game of publishing in Greece, which was to make influential connections which would lead to reviews, and, in any case, he considered his poetry to be private. He wrote in both Greek in English—sometimes the first draft in Greek, sometimes in English, which he then translated from the first language into the second. As a result, it is very difficult to determine which came first. Very few of his poems in English were published, and these in small magazines, but the English body of his work was substantial. For the book Pure Reason (Thames and Hudson, 2007), a posthumous volume of his poetry, I chose those poems from Stangos's body of work which he thought shared a common characteristic, that of a vivid philosophical sensitivity that rises to the level of poetry. To Stangos, concepts could be sensed, so the concepts of 'beauty,' 'truth,' 'the good' evoked for him subtle emotional reactions. For him, a Greek, 'ideas' were 'forms,' 'forms' 'ideas' -- 'light' was to him both light as seen with great clarity and light as an idea, as in 'I miss your light.' Concepts were to him images, images concepts. His poetry has much to do with 'absence' and 'presence,' 'absence' as potent as 'presence.' And one with this is the constant coming into focus and out of focus of the use of 'concealing' and 'revealing,' the 'concealed' as potent as the 'revealed.' Jasper Johns, in his drawing of the Stangos poem 'The Aim Was to Put a Poem Together' which he stenciled out and then covered with graphite so the words are concealed but on close examination are revealed, has interpreted visually what Stangos's poems do in words. 'Absence - presence,' 'concealed-revealed' are, in the poems, 'antinomies,' two indubitable propositions presented at the same time. In his poetry Stangos worked to bring these 'antinomies' together in what he called a 'fruitful marriage,' and in the title poem, 'Pure Reason', he succeeds in doing just that. It is a great love poem, inspired by his most personal craving, his most personal need, to live, himself, to live a life of the greatest purity of thought and feeling. And because he believed that a life most lived is lived in loving another, his poetry is impelled by his most personal craving, his most personal need, to love purely. He believed that in love the 'antinomies' would be resolved in a new knowledge of reality. Stangos's poetry was influenced by his readings in philosophy (especially Vico, Kant, and Nietzsche) and by the poetry of Wallace Stevens, some of whose poems he translated into Greek." Stangos also translated Modern Greek poetry of Constantine Cavafy, Andreas Empeirikos, and Giannēs Ritsos in the following volumes: Fourteen poems (1967), Amour, Amour: Writings or Personal Mythology (1966), Amour, Amour (2003), and Gestures, and Other Poems, 1968-1970 (1971).
Stangos was born in Athens, Greece in 1936. He was descended from both the Byzantine and the classical Greek worlds. His mother came from an old Constantinopolitan family, while his father was a member of an old Greek family that had settled in Sosopol in Bulgaria. His parents were forced to move to Athens in the early 1920s when hundreds of thousands of Greeks were expelled from Bulgaria and Turkey. Once there, and by the time of the German invasion, his father established himself as a successful architect, and, in 1944, sent his son to study at the American College, a building of his own design: that year, his heart failed, on the very day the Germans left the city. At the college, Stangos added passions for contemporary politics and poetry to his parental hinterland of classical and Byzantine culture.
As a teenager he chanced aerial leaflet-dropping for the outlawed Communist party - from the obscurity of a cinema balcony. In 1956, Stangos left Greece to continue his undergraduate studies in the United States, first at the Denison University in Ohio and then Wesleyan University in Connecticut, before going on to Harvard University to study philosophy. After Harvard, he returned to Greece to fulfill his military duty, before working briefly for Kōnstantinos Doxiadēs, the internationally renowned and innovative town planner. In 1965, he came to London, having been offered a position in the press office of the Greek embassy.
Through his friendship with the poet Nanos Valaōritēs, who himself had lived in London and had made connections with British poets, Stangos met Stephen Spender, who would be his introduction to the cultural world of 1960s London. He and Spender collaborated with David Hockney on an illustrated collection of translated poems by the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (Fourteen Poems), published in 1967 by Editions Alecto. At this time, he met, through a mutual friend, the writer David Plante, and they became lifelong partners.
In 1967, with the military takeover of Greece by right-wing colonels, Stangos left the embassy, joined demonstrations against the dictators, and was granted permanent residence in the United Kingdom. It was at this time that he began his search for a job in publishing, which had always been his ambition. At a drinks party, however, he was told by an editor at Penguin Books that there was a position going for an editor of poetry, art and architecture, theatre and cinema, and philosophy. He was interviewed by Allen Lane, Penguin's founder, and was taken on.
It was the start of an extraordinary career in publishing. As editor of the Penguin Modern Poets series, he was the first to publish in England the American poets John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Kenward Elmslie and James Schuyler; and as co-editor, with Al Alvarez, of Penguin Modern European Poets, he brought the work of the poets Marina Tsvetaeva, Fernando Pessoa and Giannēs Ritsos (the latter translated by Stangos himself) to the attention of English readers for the first time.
He also published the writings of diverse poets such as Spender, Alvarez, Adrian Stokes and Charles Bukowski. At Penguin, he also began to work with leading writers on art. With John Fleming and Hugh Honour as outside advisers, he was responsible for the company's Style and Civilization series, which included Honour's Neoclassicism (1968), Linda Nochlin's Realism(1971) and Steven Runciman's Byzantine Style and Civilization (1975).
On the death of Allen Lane in 1970, Stangos saw that, after its acquisition by Pearson, Penguin Books was likely to change its character. So in 1974, he moved to Thames and Hudson, whose position as an independent publishing house, and its in-built respect for individualism, originality and high quality matched his own views of what his authors should expect from their publisher. With the support of the then chairman Eva Neurath and the present publisher Thomas Neurath, Stangos became a director of the company, and, as well as taking responsibility for the entire art-history list, assumed the editorship of the company's flagship World of Art, series, which he held until his retirement in May 2003.
At Thames and Hudson, he continued to work with leading artists and art historians, many of whom became lifelong friends. He was responsible for important books on David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin and R.B. Kitaj, among many others, and commissioned writers and scholars including David Sylvester, Francis Haskell, John Golding, Robert Rosenblum, Richard Wollheim and John Rewald. Aware of emerging trends in art history, he also worked with younger academics and curators, among them T.J. Clark, Rosalind Krauss, John Gage, Benjamin Buchloh, Yve-Alain Bois, Griselda Pollock, Tamar Garb and John Elderfield.
A number of books under his stewardship won the Mitchell Prize, one of the highest honours in art history, including Claude Monet: the Colour of Time (1992) by Virginia Spate, Colour and Culture (1993) by John Gage and John Golding's Paths to the Absolute (2000). He was as passionate about the very latest in art as he was about art of the past, and he commissioned some of the groundbreaking books on new media, installation, performance and video art.
The collection comprises twenty archival boxes of manuscripts, correspondence, and other material pertaining to Nikos Stangos as a Greek poet and translator, and as an art editor in London (1967-2003) for Penguin Books and Thames and Hudson. The papers include personal correspondence with major Greek poets and writers (such as Giannē Ritsos, Nanos Valaōritēs, Andreas Empeirikos, Kōstas Tachtsēs, Giōrgos Iōannou, and Natasa Chatzidaki), as well as with English and American artists and intellectuals (such as David Hockney and John Berger). Also included are many autograph letters of Stangos's mother and other close family members, student notebooks, clippings of newspapers and literary magazines, autograph and typed manuscript drafts of his translations of Modern Greek poetry, printed material, and photographs.
Two online Stangos obituaries (Friday, April 23, 2004) (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nikos-stangos-549808.html and http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/apr/30/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries1), and Pure Reason were consulted during preparation of the biographical note.
Gift of David Plante to the Program in Hellenic Studies for Princeton University Library, in 2010 (AM2010-140, 2011-34).
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This collection was processed by Kalliopi Balatsouka in the summer of 2010. Finding aid written by Kalliopi Balatsouka in August 2010.
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People
- Berger, John
- Bien, Peter
- Chatzidáki, Natása 1946-
- Empeiríkos, Andréas, 1901-1975
- Friar, Kimon.
- Hockney, David
- Io̲ánnou, Gió̲rgos
- Karavidas, Giannēs
- Mētras, Michaēl 1944-
- Ritsos, Giannēs, 1909-1990
- Runciman, Steven, 1903-2000
- Seferis, George, 1900-1971.
- Tachtsēs, Kōstas 1927-1988
- Valaōritēs, Nanos
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- Kalliopi Balatsouka
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- 2010
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Collection Inventory
This series consists of Nikos Stangos's autograph and typed manuscript drafts of his poems and books of poetry, as well as, his English translations of poems of several modern Greek poets.
This series has been organized into four subseries: A. Books, B. Miscellaneous Poems, C. Poetry Notebooks, and D. Translations.
Physical Description4 boxes
This subseries comprises typed and autograph manuscript drafts of Nikos Stangos's books of poetry.
This subseries has been arranged chronologically.
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Includes autograph manuscript drafts and galley proofs of Stangos's book Poiēmata, 1966-1977 in Greek, with his handwritten corrections.
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Consists of typed manuscript drafts of the poems "Aerial Fight," "Siege," and "Visit" included in the book Poiēmata, 1966-1977- translated into English by N. Stangos in 1965 and edited by David Plante in 1966. The drafts bear heavy autograph corrections and annotations.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes photocopies of printer's galley proof of Stangos's book Poiēmata, 1966-1977.
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Includes typed manuscript drafts of Stangos's book Ta Oikeia Perivallonta tōn Lexeōn in English version with his autograph corrections.
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Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts of Stangos's book Ta Oikeia Perivallonta tōn Lexeōn, in Greek with his autograph corrections.
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Photocopies of the galley proofs of Stangos's book Ta Oikeia Perivallonta tōn Lexeōn, in Greek.
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Includes Stangos's notebook entitled "The Familiar Surroundings of the Words" containing autograph manuscript drafts of poems for Ta Oikeia Perivallonta tōn Lexeōn both in English and Greek with his handwritten emendations.
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Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts of Stangos's Ti Estin Alētheia? Ta Myelōdē Ereipia tēs Diēgēsēs, in Greek, with heavy handwritten corrections and annotations; there are also Stangos's autograph drafts of "Pōs hē homilia tha mporouse na exantlēsei tēn ennoia tēs homilias" and "Presveies" accompanied by a floppy disk of these two poems made by Giannēs Karavidas in October 2002.
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Includes photocopies of the autograph and typed manuscript drafts of Ti Estin Alētheia? Ta Myelōdē Ereipia tēs Diēgēsēs.
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Includes a final layout of the book Pure Reason dated in August 2007.
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Includes typed and autograph manuscript drafts, as well as galley proofs of the book Pure Reason with autograph corrections by Stangos. Three poems are accompanied by the autograph Greek translation: "To Neo" ["This is the New"], "Plēsiazontas" ["Closing in"], "Sēmeiōseis epi tou Pragmatikou" ["Notes on the Real"].
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Consists of original and copies of typed manuscript drafts as well as, printed pages of Pure Reason with Stangos's handwritten corrections. There are also autograph manuscript drafts of the poems "The Definition of the Beautiful" and "The Fictive Grammar"; also included are samples of the dust cover of the book.
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Nikos Stangos's poems typed out by David Plante in June 2004 to be included in the book: Pure Reason; also, typed photocopies of Nikos Stangos's biography.
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This subseries comprises miscellaneous poems written by Nikos Stangos during the years 1961-1977.
This subseries has been arranged chronologically.
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Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts of several poems both in Greek and in English by Nikos Stangos. Most of them are signed and dated 1961, 1962, and 1964-1967.
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Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts of Nikos Stangos; several poems in English version with his handwritten corrections. Few of them are dated 1966 and 1977.
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This subseries comprises Nikos Stangos's notebooks of his poetry during the years 1980-1982.
This subseries has been arranged roughy chronologically.
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Includes a notebook with autograph manuscript drafts of poems by Stangos both in English and Greek; the first part of the notebook contains poems from Ta Oikeia Perivallonta tōn Lexeōn and the second several other poems and few sketches. Most of the poems are dated 1980, 1981, and 1982.
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Includes a notebook with autograph manuscript drafts of poems by Stangos both in English and Greek written in 1981. The poems in the first part are included at Ta Oikeia Perivallonta tōn Lexeōn.
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Includes a notebook with autograph manuscript drafts of poems by Stangos both in English and Greek dated 1981.
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Includes a notebook with attached leaves of a calendar with printed poems on verso, in Greek.
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This subseries comprises Nikos Stangos's English translations of works of several Greek poets.
This subseries has been arranged alphabetically.
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Consists of autograph and typed manuscript drafts of "Ten Poems" included at the London Magazine, Apr./May 1983; several other Cavafy's poems translated into English by Stangos with his autograph corrections; also drafts of a collection of thirty poems translated by Stangos and Stephen Spender in 1965-1966.
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Typescript drafts of few of Tasos Denegrēs's poems in Greek translated into English by Stangos bearing his handwritten corrections.
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Three different typed manuscript drafts of Elytēs's poem "Marina of the Rocks" translated into English by N. Stangos bearing his autograph corrections.
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Includes an autograph manuscript poem by Empeirikos "Terra del Fuego" dedicated to Nikos Stangos, undated. Also included are typed manuscript drafts of the poems "Fusion of Seasons," "Samuel Harding," and "The Texts," all translated into English by Stangos in 1965.
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Includes typed manuscript drafts of Engonopoulos's selected poems from Do not Disturb the Driver [Mēn homileite ston hodēgo] in Englsh with handwritten corrections.
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Includes printed copies of five poems by E.Ch. Gonatas in English translation by Stangos; two of them "The Hermit" and "The Wild Beasts" included at the London Magazine, Apr./May 1996.
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Includes Nikos Stangos's two notebooks of his English translations of Giannēs Ritsos's poems: "When the Stranger Arrives" and six poems of The Mirror in the Wall. Also included are printed copies of nine poems published in London Magazine, April/May 1983, as well as several other poems translated into English by Stangos with his handwritten corrections; an autograph manuscript draft of the translated into English poem "Septeria and Daphnephoria"; a typescript draft on Ritsos's biographical information; a letter from the editor of The New Review, Ian Hamilton, regarding Ritsos's poem, copies of sketches.
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Includes Stangos's notebook with autograph manuscript drafts of the poem "To Nekro Spiti" ["The Dead House"] in English translation with handwritten corrections.
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Consists of typed manuscript drafts of Nanos Valaōritēs's poems translated into English by Nikos Stangos with his autograph corrections. Also included is a typescript of Valaōritēs's biography.
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The file comprises a printed copy of T. K. Papatsōnēs's poem "Of Boats and Other Things" published in London Magazine, Apr./May 1996; typescript copy of three poems by Natasa Chatzidaki in English translation by Stangos with his handwritten corrections. Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts of few poems of an unknown poet in English with heavy autograph corrections by Stangos.
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This series consists of Nikos Stangos's miscellaneous lectures and articles.
This series has been arranged by type of material.
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Includes typed manuscript drafts of Nikos Stangos's lecture titled "C. P. Cavafy: A History of Misreading" bearing his handwritten corrections.
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Consists of an autograph copy and two typed manuscript drafts of Stangos's lecture: "Hoi Ennoies tou Monternismou stēn Hellada," in Greek; also included is a photocopy of a clipping of the Greek newspaper "Kathēmerinē," 20/8/81 with an article by Nasos Vagenas regarding Greek monternism.
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An autograph manuscript and a typed copy of the lecture (English) on T.K. Papatsōnēs, which was given by Nikos Stangos at Oxford University at the Department of Medieval and Modern Language and Literature in September of 1997.
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Includes a typed manuscript draft of a lecture in English on Nanos Valaōritēs's work given by Nikos Stangos on February 17, 1967.
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Includes a typed manuscript draft of a lecture on Ritsos given by N. Stangos on 4/6/1976 in English.
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Includes a typed manuscript draft of the lecture "Some Sources of Modern Greek Poetry" given by N. Stangos on June 27, 1976.
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Includes a typed manuscript copy of Stangos's lecture "Gynaikes, Technē kai Ekdoseis" presented at the symposium of the "Homada Technēs 4+" in Athens accompanied by the program of the symposium. Also incuded is a bound notebook with autograph manuscript drafts of the above lecture in Greek dated in November 1990 with heavy autograph emendations.
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Includes a typed manuscript draft, in English, of the lecture: "Art History and the Book" given by Nikos Stangos on 5/3/1982.
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Includes a typed lecture in Greek given by Stangos during the inauguration of the Greek Cultural Center in London on May 2, 1980.
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Includes a typed manuscript draft of Stangos's article "Greek Games" regarding the cultural event "Greek Month" that took place in London. Also included are clippings of English newspapers and literary magazines such as Time Out, 1976 and The Times Literary Supplement relating to the event accompanied by Stangos's letters to the above institutions as well as three typed manuscript drafts of his article "Ta Metepeita tou Hellēnikou Mēna tou Londinou" with autograph corrections; an autograph manuscript draft of a questionnaire Stangos prepared for an interview with Kōstas Tachtsēs on the "Greek Month." There is also a press release dated October 1975.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes copies of Stangos's articles: "Pure Reason (for David)" and "Patrick Proctor's Travelling Companions"; also, typed manuscript drafts of "A Letter to Athens" in English bearing Stangos's autograph emendations. It was published in London Magazine, August 1966.
Physical Description1 folder
This series consists of Nikos Stangos's notebooks as a student at the American College in Athens, Greece and Harvard University.
This series has been arranged roughly chronologically.
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Included are 11 notebooks of Nikos Stangos's high-school years at the American College in Athens.
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Includes typescript drafts (2 items) of two papers that Stangos prepared in 1953 and 1954 for his high school classes written in Greek; also, autograph manuscript drafts of poems of the same period.
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Included are autograph manuscript drafts for two short essays: "Hypertatē Axia" dated in 23/6/54 and an untitled one. According to an autograph note they were published in "House Times" in 1954 and both are signed by Stangos; also included are drafts of a few poems and two sketches; an autograph poem by Alekos dated 1952 and dedicated to Nikos Stangos.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes a bound manuscript of a thesis Stangos submitted at the Denison University, Ohio in 1957-8 titled: "The Aesthetic Method in the Works of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky."
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Includes four notebooks of Stangos's college years at Harvard University.
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Includes several typescript drafts of papers Stangos prepared during his college years in Harvard University in English and one in Greek. Also included are autograph and typed manuscript drafts of Stangos's poems dated 1962.
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Consists primarily of personal and professional correspondence received by Stangos. There are also letters written by Stangos, as well as letters between others.
This series has been organized into five subseries: A. Literary, B. Publishers-Institutions, C. Business, D. Family, and E. Miscellaneous.
Physical Description13 boxes
This subseries comprises mostly incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence with mainly Greek, English, and American literary figures.
This subseries is organized alphabetically by last name of the correspondent.
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Consists of correspondence between Andrew Brown and artists that Stangos worked with, or knew as friends, to contribute to the book Pure Reason in memoriam of Nikos Stangos. Included are: Tom Phillips, Angelica Garnett, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj, Jasper Johns, Sir Howard Hodgkin, Vasō Kyriakē, Aspa Stasinopoulou, Whitney and Bob (?), Stephen Cox, Julian Lethbridge, Joe Tilson, Jake Tilson, Tim Head, Allen Jones, Jan Hasley, Keith Milow, Mark Lancaster, Liam Gillick, Jessica Craig-Martin, Maggi Hambling, Sir Anthony Caro, Stephen Buckley, Ann (?) with color photos of her art work. There are also two color photographs and one transaprency of art works by John Golding.
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Includes incoming correspondence. There are also four color photocopies of Vaso Kyriakē's art works with penciled holograph explanatory notes on verso. They were sent to David Plante to be published in the book Pure Reason.
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Includes incoming correspondence. There are also three black and white photographs of art works by Paralēs and Spyros Katapodēs.
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This subseries includes mostly incoming and few copies of outgoing correspondence with the editors, publishers, and literary agents of the following publishing companies and institutions.
This subseries has been arranged alphabetically by title of the publishing company or the institution.
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Includes Nikos Stangos's official correspondence, mostly incoming, spanning from 1975 to 2003, with poets, writers, scholars, artists, and art historians as an editorial director of Thames and Hudson. The vast amount of the correspondence relates to the submission of their works to be published by Stangos Publishing House. Some of the names included are: David Hockney, George Baker, Helen Andrew-Harris, Prof. Caroline Bruzelius, Roger Benjamin, John Willett, Zoē Kosmidou, Ian Walker, Sir Nicholas Serota, Yve-Alain Bois, Sir Howard Hodgkin, Joan Stanley-Baker, N.C. Talbot Rice, Michael Rush, David Phillips, Christopher Allen, J. Chadwick, Richard Schmidt, Ulrich Lehmann, Alan Livingston, John Gage, Mark Read, Robert Hughes and hundreds others. The correpondence comprises original and copies of typed letters, electronic mail, and facsimiles.
This subseries has been arranged chronologically.
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This subseries consists of a vast amount of correspondence between Nikos Stangos and his mother, Natalia Stangos, during the years 1966 to 1983, the year of her death. Most of the letters are undated, they only provide day and month; arranged chronoligically when possible. Also included are letters from Stangos's sister, Maria Hatzis, and other close family members.
This subseries has been arranged by type of material.
Physical Description4 boxes
Includes a holograph letter from Nikos Stangos to his mother in Athens, Greece (June 1, 19??) in Greek.
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Consists of autograph letters of condolences from Stangos's friends and colleagues for his mother death; also included are printed thank you cards from Stangos's family to friends and relatives.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph letters from Nikos Stangos's sister, Marō Hatzis, in Greek, a letter from Stangos to Marō and one to Nikos Hatzis, Marō's husband, regrading family issues; there are also few letters between Marō and her friends from Greece. Most of the letters are undated.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph letters from Nikos Stangos's aunts, Phoula Syvridou, Tatiana Staurou, and other close family members. Also photocopies of clippings of two Greek newspapers regarding the death of Asterēs Stangos, Nikos' uncle, in 1987.
Physical Description3 folders
Includes correspondence between Nikos Stangos and his niece, Natalia Hatgis-Kessell.
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This subseries includes correspondence from Stangos's friends in Greece, England and the United States regarding personal and professional issues. The first two files contain correspondence arranged alphabetically; the following two files comprise unidentified letters and the last one contains letters relating to Giannēs Ritsos detention in a concentration camp for political prisoners by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.
This subseries has been arranged mostly alphabetically.
Physical Description2 boxes
Includes autograph and typed letters from Nikos Stangos's friends and colleagues such as Abigail Solomon, Ades family, Anagnōstopoulos J. [Nakos], Bosnakēs Panagiōtēs (Ohio State University), Janet Brown, Scarlet Buckley, Nicola Crocetti, Ann Cornelisen, Tory and Mark Echlin, Edward Foster (Talisman House Publishers), Elizabeth Glenn-Conner, and few others.
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Includes autograph and typed letters from Kathleen Spivack, Stephen Keynes, Asterēs and Roza Kovvatzēs, Alkēs Kourkoulas (ELEMEP), Liane Lefaivre, Linardatos Nikos, Marō Linardatos, Constantine Manos, Jenny Moon, Joan Richardson, Katherine and Colin Ridler, Rolando Pieraccini, Ken Silver (New York University), Vasō Siskos, Virginia Spate, Ann Stoker, Robert B. Strassler, Fani-Maria Tsigakou, Alexander Tzonis (also included are copies of Tzonis's sketces for "Paranges tēs Athēnas, 1953-1983" ["Shacks of Athens or Primitive Hut"] published in London Magazine, Apr./May, 1983, Maria Tzonis, Daniel Weissbort, Tom Winnifrith (Univeristy of Warwick), and few others.
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Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence with several poets, publishers, and literary agents who signed an appeal for the release from detention by the Greek military junta of 1967 of Giannēs Ritsos. The signatories are: Anne Graham Bell, Olwyn Hughes, Tom Maschler (Granada Publishing Limited), Gwenda David, and André Deutsch. There are also clippings of The Times, Sept. 1968 and a letter to The Times regarding the freedom of Ritsos signed by the above persons.
Physical Description1 folder
This series consists of Nikos Stangos's personal papers.
This series has been arranged by type of material and chronologically.
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Includes an original copy of a Memorandum of Agreement between Nikos Stangos and Penguin Books Ltd. dated October 6, 1970.
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Includes two original private contracts of the editorial house Kedros with Nikos Stangos for the books Poiēmata, 1966-1977 and Ta Oikeia Perivallonta tōn Lexeōn.
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Includes tax reports, pension plans and other financial information of Nikos Stangos's.
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This series consists of works of several modern Greek literary figures.
This series has been arranged alphabetically.
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Contains a bound copy of Arseniou's doctorate thesis on: Between Modernism and the Avant-Garde: Literary Experimentation in the early 1960s in Greece, accompanied by a holograph letter to Nikos Stangos. Also included is a typed manuscript copy of Arseniou's article: "The Emergence of a Hybrid Avant-Garde: The Response of the Magazine Pali to Greek Modernism."
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Includes a photocopy of a typed manuscript copy of Chatzidaki's book Akrylika in Greek; a photocopy of "Dark Red"; a hard copy of the poem "Portrait of a Woman Waiting for her Guests" and few others; also included is a short biographical note on Chatzidaki.
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Includes Empeirikos's autograph manuscript drafts of parts of "Argō ē Plous Aerostatou" that were not published in the vols. 3 and 4 of the literary magazine Pali.
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Includes a photocopy of Karampetsos's article: "The Poets of the Pinball Generation" published in the Aegean Review in spring of 1999.
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Includes copies of several articles by Karavidas both in Greek and in English; a bound copy of his dissertation on Yannis Ritsos: My Sister's Song.
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Includes copies of Karavidas's articles: "Surrealism and the Early Poetry of Nikos Engonopoulos" published in Journal of Modern Greek Studies (undated) and "Surrealism in Greece (1924-1945) both accompanied by two letters to Nikos Stangos; also included are hard copies of two other articles.
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Includes a hard copy of "Urban Topography" published in 1982 in English; a color copy of "Topo-Graphies," published in 2002 in Greek; two copies of "Anadraseis" and "A Visual Poetry Exhibition."
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Includes a photocopy of David Plante's article on Nikos Stangos's poetry "Hē Poiēsē tou Nikou Stangou (1936-2004)" in Greek translation by Sōtērēs Liontos, published in the literary magazine Nea Synteleia; also included is a copy in English.
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Includes printed photocopies (1 item) of D. Plante's book Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief with his handwriiten corrections, dated 2009.
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Includes printed photocopies (1 item) of Plante's book Pure Lover: A Memoir of Grief with his handwriiten corrections (2009).
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Includes a typed manuscript draft with autograph corrections of Politē's short story "The Perfect Mask" in English.
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Included are nine autograph poems by Giannēs Ritsos in Greek: "Mystikē enochē," "To Epangelma tou Poiētē," "Stratopedo," "To Anekphrasto," "Traumatias ē Nekros?," "To Anankaio Epiphōnēma," "Ektos Chōrou," "To Telos tēs Parastasēs," Prin kai Meta ton Pnigmo." They are dated in 1972 and according to an autograph note they belong to the unpublished collection "Hypokōpha." Also included are: a black and white photograph of Ritsos from 1972 with a dedication note to Nikos Stangos on verso; 10 photographs of the illustrations which were created by Ritsos between 1968 and 1969 and published in the book Gestures; a typed manuscript of an obituary of Ritsos; photocopies of biographical information on Ritsos and a letter from Stangos to the editor of The Times Literary Supplement relating to Ritsos work.
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Includes photocopies of the autograph manuscript drafts of Ritsos' books in Greek: Thyrōreio, Gkrankanta, Kinklidōma, Petres, Cheironomies, and several other poems as well as photocopies of the typed manuscript drafts of the book Cheironomies [ Gestures] in Greek.
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Includes photocopies of the autograph manuscript drafts of Ritsos's books: Tanagraies, Chartina, Martyries, Diadromos kai Skala in Greek and a typed manuscript draft of the introduction to Martyries.
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Includes a typed manuscript copy (1 item) of Ritsos's "Persephonē" dated in 1965- 1970 in English (translated by Stangos?).
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Includes a typed manuscript copy of Staurou's book: Hoi Poulētades tēs Polēs.
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Includes an autograph manuscript draft of the poem "Erōtogonia"; galey proofs (2 items) of "Kyrio Sōma"; a typed manuscript copy of "Se mia Parenthesē" with Valaōritēs's autograph dedication note to Nikos Stangos, his autograph emendations and date "Martios 1993"; typed manuscript copy of "Agraphē Graphē" with autograph corrections; typescript photocopy of a short story "Mythistorian."
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Includes photocopies of several articles by Valaōritēs which were published in several European and American literary magazines in Greek, English, and French.
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Includes a photocopy of a radio interview that Valaōritēs gave to KPFA on "The Literature of Post-Colonial Cultures as Reflection of Unique Self-Identity"; also present is a copy of a lecture he gave at the Aristotle University of Thessalonikē, School of Modern Greek Language, 1995-1996; a short biographical note on Valaōritēs.
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Includes typed manuscript drafts of miscellaneous poems of an unknown poet, dated 1963-1966.
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This series consists of several issues of English and Greek literary magazines, exhibition catalogs of Greek artists, printed programs, miscellaneous printed lectures and articles, clippings of Greek and English newspapers and magazines, audiovisual material, and photographs.
This series has been arranged into two subseries: A. Literary Magazines and B. Clippings and Miscellaneous.
Physical Description1 box
This series consists of Greek and English literary magazines.
This subseries has been arranged by type of material.
Physical Description1 box
Includes three issues of the literary magazine "Modern Poetry in Translation,": June 1970, no. 7 with a dedication to Giannēs Ritsos poetry accompanied by two poems in English translation by Nikos Stangos, "Omens" and "The Last Grapes", the issue July 1971 and Winter 1978, no. 18; also present is an issue of The Greek Month in London. Aspects of Contemporary Greek Culture, 5 Nov.-5 Dec. '75.
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Included are two issues of the literary magazine Anti, v. 23, July 1975 with a special dedication to Giannēs Ritsos and v. 36, Jan. 1976; one issue of Eleutherotypia, a monthly magazine, June 1975, with an extensive article on Ritsos contribution to Eleutherotypia; one issue of The New Review v. 23, no. 27, June 1976 with eight poems of Giannēs Ritsos in English translation by Nikos Stangos.
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Included is one issue of ERA, Ireland's liveliest review of the Arts, 5, 1980, including the poem "Enchantments of the Obvious" by Nikos Stangos; "Twelve Poets" edited by Charles Osborne for the Poetry Book Society, 1967; an offprint of Edmund Keeley's on "The Voices of Elytis's The Axion Esti"; the issue of July 1979 of the Greek newspaper Empros published in London, in Greek.
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Included are two issues of The Times Literary Supplement, nos. 3844, 3846 of 1975.
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Includes a copy of the publication Neoellēnika Poiētika Keimena of the Aristotle University of Thessalonikē in Greece with poems of 19 post-war Greek poets.
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Catalogs of two exhibitions that Vasō Kyriakē organized in 1982 and 1987; a catalog of the exhibition "Chorus on Canvas" that took place in "galleryk" in 1991 with the participation of four Greek women artists; two exhibition catalogs of "Homada Technēs 4+"; two other catalogs of exhibitions by the artists Maria Kokkinou and Aspa [Stasinopoulou].
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Includes the program of the international conference on Andreas Empeirikos, 2001; a printed photocopy of Peter Mackridge's article on "Ho Kavafikos Seferis," 1997; a printed text "Dialogos me ton Inkor Stravinsky" by Giannēs Tsarouchēs, 1977; 3 issues of the pamphlet "Klinamen" (nos. 21, 22, 24, 1983);
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Includes printed programs of the memorial to Nikos Stangos, December 9, 2004, given at the National Gallery, London; an invitation to "Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture"; a printed program of the memorial service for Alan Ross.
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Includes a compact disk titled: "Ho Seferis sto BBC"
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Includes 17 black and white and 2 color photographs of Nikos Stangos.
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This subseries consists of clippings of Greek and English newspapers and literary magazines, as well as miscellaneous articles and other material.
This subseries has been arranged roughly by type of material.
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Includes clippings of English newspapers and literary magazines regarding David Hockney's work spanning from 1966 to 2005.
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Includes clippings of Greek and English newspapers and literary magazines regarding Giannēs Ritsos's poetry spanning from 1968 to 1997.
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Includes clippings of Greek and English newspapers regarding Nikos Stangos's work spanning from 1975-1984.
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Includes clippings of Greek and English newspapers and magazines on Greek poetry and art.
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Includes clippings of English newspapers on English poetry and few book reviews.
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Consists of typed manuscript drafts of the article "Kandisky's 'On the Artist'" translated from the Swedish into English by Ellen H. Johnson and Gösta Oldenburg (undated); a photocopy of Samuel Becket's poem "Lessness" translated by the poet from his own French version (1969); copy of an article on Seferis, in Italian, by an unknown author (undated); also included are flyers of "National Poetry Centre" presenting Nikos Stangos reading of his poetry and that of Ritsos's, 1975.
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