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OBITUARY : Odysseus Elytis
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At the beginning of his luminous career, Odysseus Elytis said:
"I write so that black does not have the last word." In his last
book, West of Sorrow, where words seem to pursue one another,
breathless, he writes: "But never, beauty, was time lent to me / to
succeed against aniline black a victory . . ." Obscure words of a
poetic kernel which was about to explode with infinite
possibilities, writes Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke {further to the
obituary by Professor Roderick Beaton, 19 March}.
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OBITUARY : Odysseus Elytis
The Independent - London
; At the beginning of his luminous career, Odysseus Elytis said: "I write so that black does not have the last word." In his last book, West of Sorrow, where words seem to pursue one another, breathless, he writes: "But never, beauty, was time lent to me / to succeed against aniline black a victory .
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Obituary: Odysseus Elytis
The Independent - London
; 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
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The other face of pride: Odysseus Elytis, 1911-1996.
World Literature Today
; ... that, even west of the sun's setting, all his splendid world of Aegean perceptions and memories is available to him. It contains news from beyond the horizon, west of the setting sun; this explains its impenetrability, its seeming obscurity: there is no way to ...
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'The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis': a commentary review. (book)
World Literature Today
; Were Odysseus Elytis still alive, this eminent, world-renowned Nobel laureate of 1979, the finest poet of modern-day Greece, would have been both delighted and gratified to see the English translation of his entire poetic work so beautifully realized in an imposing and impressive volume of 595
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Odysseus Elytis: The innate passion and the apotheosis
Poetry
; 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 (191 I-i996) remains less known in English-speaking countries than C. P. Cavafy (I863-I933), the other great Greek poet of
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From close by.(evaluating modern Greek poetry)(Critical Essay)
World Literature Today
; NINE SELECTIONS ODYSSEUS ELYTIS WITH THE APPEARANCE of From Close By, we can now see that Odysseus Elytis's last three volumes compose a trilogy, wherein old age and death are transformed into spiritual youth and regeneration, as in Shakespeare's romances. The first volume, The Elegies of Jutting
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My Poet
Poetry
; I live with a poet. Her boyfriend before me was also a poet, and published a book called Crane, in which all the poems are about her. She looks like a crane - the bird kind. I often find her standing on one leg, leaning against our bookshelves, very still, staring into a book as if for a fish to
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The Poet's Prologue; Karl Shapiro, an Outsider Looking Inward
The Washington Post
; THE YOUNGER SON: The Youth and War Years of a Distinguished American Poet By Karl Shapiro Algonquin. 287 pp. $17.95 Karl Shapiro was 21 when his first book of poetry was printed, as a favor to his uncle, by a publisher of medical textbooks. Though few of its 200 copies were sold, the 64-page volume
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Chapter and Verse, American Style; Richard Wilbur: Boorstin Chooses `A poet for us All' as Second Laureate
The Washington Post
; Richard Wilbur, a much-honored poet, translator and critic, was named yesterday as the second poet laureate of the United States. "He is a poet for us all, whose elegant words brim with wit and paradox," said Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin, who is responsible for selecting the laureate.
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(book reviews)
World Literature Today
; The essays contained in Odysseus Elytis were published individually by Andonis Decavalles over the course of the last two decades. In 1990 they were collected, translated, and issued in book form under the same title in Greece by Kedhros Publishers. Still, they constitute the only other book on
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