Elytis

Odysseus, real name Odysseus Alepoudelis. 1912--96, Greek poet, author of the long poems Axion Est (1959) and Maria Nefeli (1978): Nobel prize for literature 1979

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 1979 is awarded to odysseus Elytis (Greece, 1911-1996) "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness." ...

The Year in Books 1979

Apropos early critical reception is the virulent reaction of the "generation of the thirties," the Athenian avant-garde that would produce two Nobel Prize winners in poetry (George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis).

La pensee de midi: Mediterranean cosmopolitanism in the work of Camus, Cavafy, and Chahine

'Poems dance': Children listened to poems by Elytis and Ritsos set to music and became aware that poetry can be a source of inspiration for musical compositions.

The role of teaching poetry in developing literacy in Greek primary school: a case study

Here's an example from the middle of "Birth, Mud, Hyacinth": Elytis writes, "it is correct to give The unknown its due." This morning at a curve in the road The cows stood together Around a blinking newborn calf Slick with astonishment.

The ties that bind us: five new books by American poets

Sing to us about Elytis' small world the great, Vallego's big-hatted verse, the laughing lemons of Darwish, victims of a map, who turned friend of the corn the day his poems were made of earth Sing to us about Huidobro, about the magic lyre of Octavio Paz, Zapata's arrow in the bow of flying ballads; about Czeslaw Milosz, "Child of Europe," walking through the malignant wisdom of broken cities Sing to us about bards, troubadours, griots, towncriers Who joined the earth but left their voices behind.

Osundare's poetry and the Yoruba Worldview

Poems are arranged by historical period, from classical antiquity to the twentieth century, and include 185 poets, such as Homer, Sappho, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Vitsentzos Kornaros, Andreas Kalvos, Dionysios Solomos, Georgios Souris, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, C.P.

The Greek poets; Homer to the present

I recall one of my favourite poems (which I know by heart) by the Greek poet Odysseus Elytis (1998: xxvii in Anoint the Ariston) and think about the way a Western logic does not nurture vulnerability or gentleness:

Body of questions, book of changes: event-texts from the butoh performance work Ama-no-gawa

Greek poet and Nobel Laureate Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996) wrote that "poetry begins there where death has not the final word" (qtd.

Anne Michaels and the affirmation of being in the poetics of suffering and trauma

(1.) The analogy of "parallel monologues" drawn upon Odysseus Elytis's Maria Nephele--with which the book opens--refers to the fact that the "nationalist projects...relentlessly emphasizing their differences [are] yet painfully aware of their similarities" (2).

Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey

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