The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis.

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The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis. Translated by Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris. The Johns Hopkins University Press. $49.95.

Despite his 1979 Nobel Prize, Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996) remains less known in English-speaking countries than C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933), the other great Greek poet of the twentieth century. No two poets could be more antithetical. The work of the latter is realistic, pessimistic, agnostic, ironic, emotionally sober, limpid in style (though cer...

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