Greek Art Critics - Odysseas Elytis, Aris Konstantinidis, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Dimitris Pikionis, Teriade, Zacharias Papantoniou (Paperback)

Chapters: Odysseas Elytis, Aris Konstantinidis, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Dimitris Pikionis, Teriade, Zacharias Papantoniou. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Odysseas Elytis (Greek: ) (November 2, 1911March 18, 1996) was a Greek poet regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Descendant of the Alepoudhelis, an old industrial family from Lesbos, he was born in Heraklion (Candia) on the island of Crete, 2 November 1911. His family later moved to Athens, where the poet graduated from high school and later attended courses as an auditor at the Law School at University of Athens. In 1935, Elytis published his first poem in the journal New Letters ( ) at the prompting of such friends as George Seferis. His entry with a distinctively earthy and original form assisted to inaugurate a new era in Greek poetry and its subsequent reform after the Second World War. From 1969-1972, under the Greek military junta of 19671974, Elytis exiled himself to Paris. Elytis was romantically linked to the lyricist and musicologist Mariannina Kriezi, who subsequently produced and hosted the popular children's radio broadcast "Here Lilliput." Elytis was intensely private and vehemently solitary in pursuing his ideals of poetic truth and experience. In 1937 he served his military requirements. As an army cadet, he joined the National Military School in Corfu. During the war he was appointed Second Lieutenant, placed initially at the 1st Army Corps Headquarters, then transferred to the 24th Regiment, on the first-line of the battlefields. Elytis was sporadically publishing poetry and essays after his initial foray into the literary world. He was a member of the Association of Greek Art ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=15503