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Elytis’s poetry collections include What I Love: Selected Poems of Odysseus Elytis, translated by Olga Broumas (1978), Maria Nefeli: Skiniko piima (1978, translated as Maria the Cloud: Dramatic Poem, 1981), and To axion esti (1959, translated as Worthy It Is, 1974).
31 ott 2016 · Discover a selection of great poems by Odysseas Elytis Greek poet and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature.
9 mar 2020 · Twenty years in preparation, this volume includes his early poems, influenced in equal parts by surrealism and the landscape and climate of Greece and the Aegean Sea; his long, epic poem connecting Greece's - and his own - Second World War experience to the myth of the eternal Greek hero, Song Heroic and Mourning for the Lost Second ...
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...
The Little Mariner. By Odysseus Elytis. Translated by Olga Broumas. Spotlight a. SCENE ONE: Open-air court in the ancient city of Athens. The accused arrive. and proceed among curses and cries of Death! Death! SCENE TWO: A jail in the same city, beneath the Acropolis, walls half-eaten by.
Odysseus Elytis. Side by side. English Original language. MARINA OF THE ROCKS. You have a taste of tempest on your lips—But where did you wander. All day long in the hard reverie of stone and sea? An eagle-bearing wind stripped the hills. Stripped your longing to the bone. And the pupils of your eyes received the message of chimera.
A major poet in the Greek language, Elytis is also one of the most outstanding international figures of 20th-century poetry. In his work, modernist European poetics and Greek literary tradition are fused in a highly original lyrical voice.
