Odysseas Elytis - Wikipedia
WEBOdysseas Elytis ( Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης [oðiˈseas eˈlitis], pen name of Odysseas Alepoudellis, Greek: Οδυσσέας Αλεπουδέλλης; 2 November 1911 – 18 March 1996) was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as the definitive exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world.
Odysseus Elytis | Poetry Foundation
WEB1911–1996. Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis was born Odysseus Alepoudelis, in the city of Heraklion, on the island of Crete, on November 2, 1911. To avoid any association with his wealthy family of soap manufacturers, he later changed his surname to reflect those things he most treasured.
Odysseus Elytis | Nobel Prize, Modern Greek Poetry
WEBMar 14, 2024 · Odysseus Elytis was a Greek poet and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born the scion of a prosperous family from Lesbos, he abandoned the family name as a young man in order to dissociate his writing from the family soap business. Elytis studied law at Athens University. Intrigued by.
A Look at Greek Poet Odysseas Elytis's Best Poems - Culture Trip
WEBOct 31, 2016 · Odysseas Elytis was one of the greatest poets of modern Greece. He was born in 1911 in Heraklion, Crete and by the age of three he and his family came to Athens . He came in touch with significant Greek painters, poets and authors who influenced his artistic expression.
Odysseas Elytis - New World Encyclopedia
WEBOdysseas Elytis ( Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης) (November 2, 1911 – March 18, 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Greece. Modernism, as a tendency, emerged in mid-nineteenth century Western Europe.
Elytis, Odysseus | Encyclopedia.com
WEBOdysseus Elytis. BORN: 1911, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. DIED: 1996, Athens, Greece. NATIONALITY: Greek. GENRE: Poetry, nonfiction. MAJOR WORKS: Orientations (1939) The Axion Esti (1959) Maria Nefeli (1978) The Little Mariner (1988) West of …
Greek Poet Odysseas Elytis Depicted Struggle for Freedom
WEBOct 9, 2023 · Odysseas Elytis, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, is regarded as one of Greece ’s major poets and a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and worldwide. In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and most of his works have been translated into many languages.
ODYSSEAS ELYTIS | Program of Modern Greek Studies
WEBJun 18, 2015 · ODYSSEAS ELYTIS. Citation: Connolly D ed. ODYSSEAS ELYTIS .; 1996. Download Citation. Abstract: This volume contains translations of two late collections by the Greek Nobel Laureate Odysseas Elytis. The Oxopetra Elegies, which he published in November 1991 at the age of eighty, was immediately hailed as one of his finest works.
Odysseus Elytis - Greece - Poetry International
WEBBiography. Odysseus Elytis, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Heraklion, Crete, in 1911 and died in Athens in 1996. A major poet in the Greek language, Elytis is also one of the most outstanding international figures of 20th-century poetry.
Beauty and the Illiterate by Odysseus Elytis | Poetry Foundation
WEBStretched to the extreme points of the Large Dog and of the Virgin. “Far from the pestilential city I dreamed of her deserted place. where a tear may have no meaning and the only light be. from the flame that ravishes all that for me exists. “Shoulder-to-shoulder under what will be, sworn to extreme silence. and the co-ruling of the stars,
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