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Obituary: Odysseus Elytis
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West of Sorrow is the title of the final collection of poems by
Odysseus Elytis, published in Greek at the end of last year. The
seven poems of the collection were apparently written as recently
as last summer, the poet's 84th, spent at Porto Rafti on the coast
outside Athens.
Elytis will probably always be remembered as a poet of the Greek
summer and of the Aegean sea. His first poems date from 1929, and
his almost annual visits as a young man to the Greek islands. In
the 1930s Elytis...
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