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George Seferis

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Biography
==Biography==
[[Image:Seferis-p 04.jpg|thumb|250px|The poet with his spouse, Maro]]
Seferis was born in [[Smyrna]] in [[Asia Minor]] (now İzmir, Turkey). His father, Stelios Seferiadis, was a lawyer, and later a professor at the [[University of Athens]], as well as a poet and translator in his own right. He was also a staunch [[Venizelism|Venizelist]] and a supporter of the [[Modern Greek|demotic]] [[Greek language]] over the formal, official language ([[katharevousa]]). Both of these attitudes influenced his son. In [[1914]] the family moved to [[Athens]], where Seferis completed his secondary school education. He continued his studies in Paris from [[1918]] to [[1925]], studying law at the Sorbonne. While he was there, in September [[1922]], Smyrna was occupied by the Turks and its Greek population, including Seferis' family, fled. Seferis would not visit Smyrna again until [[1950]]; the sense of being an exile from his childhood home would inform much of Seferis' poetry, showing itself particularly in his interest in the story of [[Odysseus]].

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