Odysseus Elytis: The innate passion and the apotheosis

From: Poetry | Date: August 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

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 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 certain idiosyncratic spellings and syntactic originalities are masked by translations); while the poetry of Elytis is ...

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