Edmund Keeley

• Birth Name — Edmund Leroy Keeley • Born — 5 February 1928 • Birthplace — Damascus, State of Syria • Died — 23 February 2022 • Place of death — Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. • Occupation — Writer, translator, professor • Education — * Princeton University (BA) • Oxford University (D.Phil)

Keeley was born in Damascus, Syria, on February 5, 1928, the son of the American diplomat James Hugh Keeley, Jr. and Mathilde (Vossler) Keeley, a homemaker. His brother was the diplomat Robert V. Keeley. He spent his childhood in Canada, Greece, and Washington, D.C., before earning his BA from Princeton University in 1949. In 1952 he received a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Oxford University where he studied with a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Keeley served twice as president of the Modern Greek Studies Association from 1970 to 1973 and 1980 to 1982, and as president of PEN American Center from 1992 to 1994. He retired from a long career of teaching English, creative writing, and Hellenic studies at Princeton University in 1994. His fiction and non-fiction are often set in Greece, where he spent part of each year, but also in Europe and the Balkans, where he has frequently traveled, and in Thailand and Washington, D.C.. He lived with his wife Mary Stathato-Kyris (married in 1951) in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1954 until her death in 2012. Keeley died from complications of a blood clot at his home in Princeton, New Jersey on February 23, 2022, at the age of 94.

• Six Poets of Modern Greece (With Philip Sherrard) Alfred A. Knopf, 1961 • Vassilis Vassilikos, 'The Plant,' 'The Well,' 'The Angel': A Trilogy (With Mary Keeley) Knopf, 1964. • Four Greek Poets (With Philip Sherrard) Penguin Books, 1965 • George Seferis, Collected Poems: 1924-1955 (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1967 - • C. P. Cavafy, Passions and Ancient Days (with George Savidis) Hogarth Press, 1972 • Modern Greek Writers: Solomos, Calvos, Matesis, Palamas, Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Seferis, Elytis (With Peter Bien) Princeton University Press, 1972 • C. P. Cavafy, Selected Poems (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1972 • Odysseus Elytis, The Axion Esti (with George Savidis) Pittsburgh University Press, 1972 • C. P. Cavafy, Three Poems of Passion (with George Savidis) Plain Wrapper Press, 1975 • C. P. Cavafy, Collected Poems (With Philip Sherrard and George Savidis) Princeton University Press, 1975, revised edition, Princeton University Press, 1992. - • Angelos Sikelianos, Selected Poems (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1979 • Odysseus Elytis, Selected Poems Viking-Penguin, 1981 - • The Dark Crystal: An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry (With Philip Sherrard) Denise Harvey & CO, 1981 • Voices of Modern Greece: Selected Poems of C.P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1981 - • Yannis Ritsos, Return and Other Poems Parallel Editions, 1983 • C. P. Cavafy, A Selection of Poems (with Philip Sherrard) Camberwell Press, 1985 • Yannis Ritsos, Exile and Return: Selected Poems, 1967-74 Ecco Press, 1985 • The Legacy of R.P. Blackmur: Essays, Memoirs, Texts (with Edward T. Cone and Joseph Frank) Ecco Press, 1987 • Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses Princeton University Press, 1991 • The Essential Cavafy (With Philip Sherrard) Ecco Press, 1995 - • George Seferis, Collected Poems, (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1995 • George Seferis and Edmund Keeley: Correspondence, 1951-1971 Princeton University Library, 1997 • A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000: Bilingual Edition (with Peter Bien, Peter Constantine, and Karen Van Dyck) Cosmos Publishing, 2004 - • Selected Poems Of Odysseus Elytis (with Philip Sherrard) Anvil Press, 2007 • The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (co-editor) W. W. Norton, 2009 • ″Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems″,(with Philip Sherrard), second bilingual edition, Denise Harvey (publisher), 1996,