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List Of Modern Greek Poets
''This article is concerned with modern Greek poets. For earlier artists, see List of Ancient Greek poets.'' This is a list of modern Greek poets (years link to corresponding "earin poetry" article): * Andreas Kalvos ( 1792– 1869) * Dionysios Solomos (1798–1857) * George Tsimbidaros-Fteris ( 1891–1967) * Andreas Laskaratos (1811–1901) * Aristotelis Valaoritis ( 1824– 1879) * Kostis Palamas ( 1859–1943) * Athos Dimoulas (1921–1985) * Constantine Cavafy ( 1863–1933) * Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) * Angelos Sikelianos (1884–1951) * Kostas Varnalis (1884–1974) * Napoleon Lapathiotis (1889–1944) * Giannis Skarimpas (1893–1984) * Kostas Karyotakis (1896–1928) * Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971) * Andreas Empeirikos (1901–1975) * Maria Polydouri ( 1902–1930) * D.I. Antoniou (1906–1994) * Nikos Engonopoulos ( 1907–1985) * Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990) * Nikos Kavadias ( 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1879 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * October 10 – American poet Ethel Lynn Beers' collected works ''"All Quiet Along The Potomac" and Other Poems'' (including her most well-known work " All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight") are published; the following day she dies aged 52 at Orange, New Jersey. * Critic and poet Theodore Watts-Dunton takes the alcoholic poet Algernon Charles Swinburne into his permanent care at Watts' Putney home. Works published in English United Kingdom * Edwin Arnold, ''The Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation'' (see also ''The Light of the World'' 1891) * Louisa Sarah Bevington, ''Key-Notes'' * Robert Bridges, ''Poems'' (see also ''Poems'' 1873, 1880) * Robert Browning, ''Dramatic Idyls'', including "Ivàn Ivànovitch" (see also ''dramatic Idyls'' 1880) * Edmund Gosse, ''New Poems'' * Kate Greenaway, '' Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelos Sikelianos
Angelos Sikelianos ( el, Άγγελος Σικελιανός; 28 March 1884 – 19 June 1951) was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. His themes include Greek history, religious symbolism as well as universal harmony in poems such as ''The Moonstruck'', ''Prologue to Life'', ''Mother of God'', and ''Delphic Utterance''. His plays include '' Sibylla'', '' Daedalus in Crete'', '' Christ in Rome'', '' The Death of Digenis'', '' The Dithyramb of the Rose'' and ''Asklepius''. Although occasionally his grandiloquence blunts the poetic effect of his work, some of Sikelianos finer lyrics are among the best in Western literature. Every year from 1946 to 1951, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Biography Sikelianos was born in Lefkada where he spent his childhood. In 1900, he registered to the Athens Law School but never graduated. In the course of the following years, he traveled extensively and devoted himself to poetry. In 1907, he married the American Eva Palmer in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 10 – T. S. Eliot marries his secretary Valerie Fletcher, almost 40 years his junior, in a private church ceremony. * March 15 – ''Élet és Irodalom'' first published in Hungary as a literary magazine. * March 25 – Copies of Allen Ginsberg's ''Howl and Other Poems'' (first published 1 November 1956) printed in England are seized by United States Customs Service officials in San Francisco on the grounds of obscenity. On October 3, in ''People v. Ferlinghetti'', a subsequent prosecution of publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the city, the work is ruled not to be obscene. The trial brings significant attention to the participants and other poets of the Beat Generation. * Ginsberg surprises the literary world by abandoning San Francisco. After a spell in Morocco, he and Peter Orlovsky move to Paris, France, at the suggestion of Gregory Cors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1883 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published in English United Kingdom * William Allingham, ''The Fairies'', including "Up the airy mountain ..."; reprinted from ''Poems'' 1850Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, ''The Wind and the Whirlwind'' * Robert Bridges, ''Prometheus the Firegiver'' * Robert Browning, ''Jocoseria'' * George Meredith, ''Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth'' * Algernon Charles Swinburne, ''A Century of Roundels'' United States * Francis James Child, editor, ''English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', an anthology published in five volumes from this year to 1898Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis ( el, ; 2 March ( OS 18 February) 188326 October 1957) was a Greek writer. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years. Kazantzakis's novels included '' Zorba the Greek'' (published in 1946 as ''Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas''), '' Christ Recrucified'' (1948), ''Captain Michalis'' (1950, translated Freedom or Death), and '' The Last Temptation of Christ'' (1955). He also wrote plays, travel books, memoirs, and philosophical essays, such as '' The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises''. His fame spread in the English-speaking world due to cinematic adaptations of '' Zorba the Greek'' (1964) and '' The Last Temptation of Christ'' (1988). He translated also a number of notable works into Modern Greek, such as the ''Divine Comedy'', ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra'', ''On the Origin of Species'', and Homer's ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey''. Biography When Kazantzakis was born in 1883 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January – Geoffrey Grigson publishes the first issue of ''New Verse'' in London (1933–39). * January–March – New Objectivity movement in German literature and art ends with the fall of the Weimar Republic. * June – W. H. Auden has his "Vision of Agape". * May 9 – A. E. Housman delivers his influential Leslie Stephen lecture, "The Name and Nature of Poetry", in Cambridge, asserting that poetry's function is "to transfuse emotion – not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer ... He criticizes much of the poetry from the 17th and 18th centuries as deficient in this regard, and condemns Alexander Pope's poetry in particular while praising William Collins, Christopher Smart, William Cowper and William Blake. * Black Mountain College founded in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1863 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 1 – American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation by composing " Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with its debut reading at Boston Music Hall. * May 17 – Intimist poet Rosalía de Castro published her first collection in Galician, ''Cantares gallegos'' ("Galician Songs"), commemorated every year as the ''Día das Letras Galegas'' ("Galician Literature Day"), an official holiday of the Autonomous Community of Galicia in Spain. Works published in English United Kingdom * Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ''The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets'', essays first published in the ''Athenaeum'' 1842 and revised before the author's death; posthumousCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Robert Browning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine Cavafy
Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης ; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933), known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy (), was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria. His work, as one translator put it, "holds the historical and the erotic in a single embrace." Cavafy's friend E. M. Forster, the novelist and literary critic, introduced his poems to the English-speaking world in 1923, famously describing him as "a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe." Cavafy's consciously individual style earned him a place among the most important figures not only in Greek poetry, but in Western poetry as a whole. Cavafy wrote 155 poems, while dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. During his lifetime, he consistently refused to formally publish his work and preferred to share it through lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 16 - Canadian Poetry Association founded. * May - The term " New Formalism" is first used in the article "The Yuppie Poet" in ''e AWP Newsletter'' in an attack on the poetry movement. The term is adopted as the name of the movement by those in it. * November 11 - A memorial to sixteen English poets of World War I is unveiled in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. * A memorial to Hugh MacDiarmid is unveiled near his home at Langholm, Scotland. * ''Boulevard'' magazine founded at St. Louis University by Richard W. Burgin. * Influential Chinese literary magazine ''Tamen'' ("They/Them") founded with Han Dong as chief editor, with close collaboration of other Chinese writers, including Ding Dang, Yu Jian, Xiaojun, Su Tong, Naigu and Xiaohai. Nine issues will be published between 1985–1988 and 1993-1995 and in 2002 ''Tamen'' will be revived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March — Jorge Luis Borges returns to his birthplace, Buenos Aires in Argentina, after a period living with his family in Europe. * August 3 — Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov's fate is sealed when he is arrested in the Soviet Union by the Cheka on charges of being a monarchist; on August 24 the Petrograd Cheka decrees execution of all 61 participants of the "Tagantsev Conspiracy", including Gumilyov. The exact dates and locations of their executions and burials are still unknown. He had divorced Russian poet Anna Akhmatova in 1918. * Autumn–Winter — T. S. Eliot works on ''The Waste Land'' in Margate and Lausanne. * December 31 — Mexican poet Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first Stridentist manifesto, ''Comprimido estridentista'', in the broadsheet ''Actual'' n°1 (Mexico City). * Mrs. C. A. Dawson-Scott founds PEN, an international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athos Dimoulas
Athos Dimoulas ( el, Άθως Δημουλάς) (Athens, Greece, 1921–1985) was a Greek poet. He studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and abroad (in Belgium, England and France), and worked for the Hellenic State Railways Hellenic State Railways or SEK ( el, Σιδηρόδρομοι Ελληνικού Κράτους, ''Sidirodromi Ellinikou Kratous''; Σ.Ε.Κ.) was a Greek public sector entity (legal person of public law, el, Ν.Π.Δ.Δ.) which was established in ... from 1944 to 1972. His collection of poems ''Άλλοτε και αλλού'' was awarded the State Prize for Poetry in 1967. Works *''Ποιήματα'' (Poems), 1951 *''Νέα Ποιήματα'' (New Poems), 1951 *''Σονέττα'' (Sonnets), 1953 *''Χωρίς τίτλο'' (Untitled), 1956 *''Ορφεύς'' (Orpheus), 1958 *''Ένδον'' (Inside), 1960 *''Αυτή η πραγματικότητα και η άλλη'' (This Reality and the Other One), 1961 *''Περί μν ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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