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An analysis of “The Colossus of Maroussi” with a presentation of Swedenborg’s cosmology and its importance in the development of Miller’s philosophy. Conclusions and an epilogue.
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See, for example, a letter from July 1938 in The Durrell-Miller Letters 1935–80 (1988), p. 99.
- 2.
Miller’s version is from “Seraphita” in The Wisdom of the Heart, p. 200ff.
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In The Wisdom of the Heart.
- 4.
Durrell, in Prospero’s Cell (1945), provides a wonderful description of their life in The White House and on Corfu in general.
- 5.
Important sources to the life of Seferis and several others are Roderick Beaton’s George Seferis—Waiting for the Angel (2003) and Edmund Keeley’s Inventing Paradise—The Greek Journey 1937–47 (1999).
- 6.
John Parkin: Henry Miller, the Modern Rabelais, 1990, p. 103ff.
- 7.
See my own account of the relationship between Miller and Seferis in “Miller and Seferis: A Mutual Portrait from One Mythologist To the Other” in Nexus, no. 8 (2001).
- 8.
The beginning of the poem in Edmund Keeley’s and Philip Sherrard’s translation in George Seferis, Collected Poems (1995), p. 129.
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In Chap. 13, the importance for Miller of the Elusian cult is explained.
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After the legend, this is the site where King Agamemnon was killed by his wife Klytaimnestra, who was later killed by her son Orestes.
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When Miller combines the place with queens and female presence he may have been inspired by the famous detail called “The Queen’s Apartment”.
- 12.
In Nexus Vol. 12, 2018, I give a detailed account of the episode in the essay: “A Romanticist on Crete: Aspects of Henry Miller’s Vitalism.”
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Jensen, F. (2019). The Greek Journey. In: Henry Miller and Modernism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33165-8_17
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