Turning Point (Στροφή / Strophi)

The true original-language first is Στροφή (Strophi / Turning Point), Athens 1931 — the self-financed debut and the cornerstone first collectors chase. His mature masterpiece is Μυθιστόρημα (Mythistorema), 24 free-verse poems, Athens 1935 (issued in association with the journal Ta Nea Grammata; the Kastalia imprint is sometimes cited — verify); a passage from "Mythistorema 3" was recited in the "Allegory" segment of the 2004 Athens Olympics opening ceremony. On English translations, note precedence carefully: the earliest English appearance in book form is the slim shared pamphlet "Six Poems from the Greek of Sikelianos and Seferis," privately printed in Rhodes in 1946, translated by Lawrence Durrell (three Seferis poems alongside three by Sikelianos, ~18 pp., wrappers) — NOT a standalone Seferis book and not published in the UK. The first substantial, UK-published, book-length Seferis volume in English is "The King of Asine and Other Poems" (London: John Lehmann, 1948, 82 pp.), translated by Bernard Spencer, Nanos Valaoritis and Lawrence Durrell, with an introduction by Rex Warner (pp. 7–13) and a dust-wrapper design by Keith Vaughan. Common trap: Rex Warner here is the INTRODUCER, not a translator; his own Warner-translated "Poems" came later (London: Bodley Head, 1960). The standard scholarly English is the Keeley & Sherrard bilingual Collected Poems (Princeton).