https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Odysseus_Elytis&feed=atom&action=historyOdysseus Elytis - Revision history2024-03-28T12:46:52ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.32.0https://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Odysseus_Elytis&diff=42807&oldid=prevIrlandos at 14:03, December 10, 20102010-12-10T14:03:32Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On [[October 18]], [[1979]], Elytis won the Nobel Prize for Literature.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On [[October 18]], [[1979]], Elytis won the Nobel Prize for Literature<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. He accepted the award on [[December 10]] from the King of Sweden. The following year, he donated the medal and diploma associated with his prize to the Benakis Museum</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Odysseus Elytis (also ''Elytes'', original surname ''Alepoudhelis''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης</del>), <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">descendant of an old family of [[Lesbos]], he </del>was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">born in </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Heraklion]] (Candia) on the island of [[Crete]], [[November 2</del>]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, [[1911]]. Some time later his family settled permanently in Athens where the poet finished his secondary school studies and later visited the Law School of the [[Athens University]]. He abandoned the family name as a young man in order to dissociate his writing from the family soap business. His first appearance as a </del>poet <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in [[1935]] through the magazine "Nea Grammata" ("New Culture") was saluted as an important event and the new style he introduced - though giving rise to a great many reactions - succeeded in prevailing and effectively contributing to the poetical reform commencing in the Second World War's eve </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">going on up to our days. This avant-garde magazine was a prime vehicle for the "Generation of the '[[30s]]," an influential school that included [[George Seferis]], who in [[1963]] became the first Greek </del>Nobel <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">laureate for literature</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>Odysseus Elytis<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' </ins>(also ''Elytes''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, [[Greek language|Greek]]: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης</ins>, original surname ''Alepoudhelis''), was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Greeks|Greek</ins>]] poet and Nobel <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Prize winner</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1937</del>]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">he visited the Reserve Officer's Cadet School </del>in [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Corfu</del>]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. Upon </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">outbreak </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the war he served in the rank of Second Lieutenant</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first at the Headquarters of the 1st Army Corps and then at the 24th Regiment</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">on the advanced fire line</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">During </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">German occupation </del>and later<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, after Greece was liberated, he has been unabatedly active, publishing successive collections </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">poetry and writing essays concerning contemporary poetry and art problems</del>. He <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">became something of </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bard among </del>young <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Greeks; one of </del>his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">poems, Asma heroiko kai penthimo gia ton chameno anthypolochago tes Alvanias (</del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1945</del>]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">; </del>"<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Heroic and Elegiac Song </del>for the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Lost Second Lieutenant </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Albanian Campaign</del>"<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">), became </del>an <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">anthem to the cause of freedom. After the war he lapsed into literary silence for almost 15 years</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">returning to print </del>in [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1959</del>]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">with To Axion Esti ("Worthy It Is"; The Axion Esti)</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a long poem reminiscent of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Elytis was a descendant of an old family of </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Lesbos</ins>]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. He was born </ins>in [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Heraklion</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(Candia) on </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">island </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Crete]]</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">on [[November 2]]</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[1911]]</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> Some time later his family settled permanently in [[Athens]] where </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">poet finished his secondary school studies </ins>and later <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">visited the Law School </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the [[Athens University]]</ins>. He <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">abandoned the family name as </ins>a young <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">man in order to disassociate </ins>his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">writing from the family soap business. He first appeared as a poet in </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1935</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">through the magazine "Nea Grammata" ("New Culture</ins>"<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">). This avant-garde magazine was a prime vehicle </ins>for the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"Generation </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'[[30s]],</ins>" an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">influential school that included [[George Seferis]] who</ins>, in [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1963</ins>]], <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">became the first Greek Nobel Prize winner for literature</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In [[1937]] he visited the Reserve Officer's Cadet School in [[Corfu]]. Upon the outbreak of the war he served in the rank of Second Lieutenant, first at the Headquarters of the 1st Army Corps and then at the 24th Regiment, on the advanced fire line. During the German occupation and later, after Greece was liberated, he has been unabatedly active, publishing successive collections of poetry and writing essays concerning contemporary poetry and art problems. He became something of a bard among young Greeks; one of his poems, "Asma heroiko kai penthimo gia ton chameno anthypolochago tes Alvanias" ("Heroic and mournful song for the lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign"), became an anthem to the cause of freedom. After the war he lapsed into literary silence for almost 15 years, returning to print in [[1959]] with "To Axion Esti" ("Worthy It Is"; The Axion Esti), a long poem reminiscent of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was </ins>twice Programme Director of the [[Greek National Radio Foundation]] (1945-46 and 1953-54), Member of the National Theatre's Administrative Council, President of the Administrative Council of the [[Greek Radio and Television Service]] as well as Member of the Consultative Committee of the Greek National Tourist's Organisation on the [[Athens Festival]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[1960]] he was awarded the First State Poetry Prize, in [[1965]] the Order of the Phoenix Brigade and in [[1975]] he was proclaimed Doctor Honoris Causa of the Philosophical School of the Thessaloniki University and Honorary Citizen of the Town of [[Mytilene]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During the years [[1948]]-[[1952]] and [[1969]]-[[1972]] he settled in Paris. There, he listened to philology and literature lessons in the Sorbonne and got acquainted with the pioneers of the world's avant-garde (Reverdy, Breton, Tzara, Ungaretti, Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Giacometti). Starting from Paris he travelled and visited subsequently Switzerland, England, Italy and Spain. In 1948 he was the representative of Greece at the "International Meetings of Geneva", in 1949 at the Founding Congress of the "International Art Critics Union" in Paris and in 1962 at the "Incontro Romano della Cultura" in Rome.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During the years [[1948]]-[[1952]] and [[1969]]-[[1972]] he settled in Paris. There, he listened to philology and literature lessons in the Sorbonne and got acquainted with the pioneers of the world's avant-garde (Reverdy, Breton, Tzara, Ungaretti, Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Giacometti). Starting from Paris he travelled and visited subsequently Switzerland, England, Italy and Spain. In 1948 he was the representative of Greece at the "International Meetings of Geneva", in 1949 at the Founding Congress of the "International Art Critics Union" in Paris and in 1962 at the "Incontro Romano della Cultura" in Rome.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Elytis' poetry has marked, through an active presence of over forty years, a broad spectrum. Unlike others, he did not turn back to Ancient Greece or Byzantium but devoted himself exclusively to today's [[Hellenism]], of which he attempted - in a certain way based on psychical and sentimental aspects - to build up the mythology and the institutions. His main endeavour has been to rid his people's conscience from remorses unjustifiable, to complement natural elements through ethical powers, to achieve the highest possible transparency in expression and to finally succeed in approaching the mystery of light, "the metaphysic of the sun" - according to his own definition. A parallel way concerning technique resulted in introducing the "inner architecture", which is clearly perceptible in a great many works of his; mainly in the Axion Esti - It Is Worthy. This work - thanks to its setting to music by [[Mikis Theodorakis]] - was to be widely spread among all Greeks and grew to be a kind of the people's new gospel. Elytis' theoretical ideas have been expressed in a series of essays under the title (Offering) My Cards To Sight. Besides he applied himself to translating poetry and theatre as well as creating a series of collage pictures. Translations of his poetry have been published as autonomous books, in anthologies or in periodicals in eleven languages.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Elytis' poetry has marked, through an active presence of over forty years, a broad spectrum. Unlike others, he did not turn back to Ancient Greece or <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Byzantine Empire|</ins>Byzantium<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>but devoted himself exclusively to today's [[Hellenism]], of which he attempted - in a certain way based on psychical and sentimental aspects - to build up the mythology and the institutions. His main endeavour has been to rid his people's conscience from remorses unjustifiable, to complement natural elements through ethical powers, to achieve the highest possible transparency in expression and to finally succeed in approaching the mystery of light, "the metaphysic of the sun" - according to his own definition. A parallel way concerning technique resulted in introducing the "inner architecture", which is clearly perceptible in a great many works of his; mainly in the Axion Esti - It Is Worthy. This work - thanks to its setting to music by [[Mikis Theodorakis]] - was to be widely spread among all Greeks and grew to be a kind of the people's new gospel. Elytis' theoretical ideas have been expressed in a series of essays under the title (Offering) My Cards To Sight. Besides he applied himself to translating poetry and theatre as well as creating a series of collage pictures. Translations of his poetry have been published as autonomous books, in anthologies or in periodicals in eleven languages.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Irlandoshttps://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Odysseus_Elytis&diff=4925&oldid=prevLazarus at 13:12, November 2, 20052005-11-02T13:12:26Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Descendant </del>of an old family of [[Lesbos]], he was born in [[Heraklion]] (Candia) on the island of [[Crete]], [[November 2]], [[1911]]. Some time later his family settled permanently in Athens where the poet finished his secondary school studies and later visited the Law School of the [[Athens University]]. His first appearance as a poet in 1935 through the magazine "Nea Grammata" ("New Culture") was saluted as an important event and the new style he introduced - though giving rise to a great many reactions - succeeded in prevailing and effectively contributing to the poetical reform commencing in the Second World War's eve and going on up to our days.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Odysseus Elytis (also ''Elytes'', original surname ''Alepoudhelis'', Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης), descendant </ins>of an old family of [[Lesbos]], he was born in [[Heraklion]] (Candia) on the island of [[Crete]], [[November 2]], [[1911]]. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins>Some time later his family settled permanently in Athens where the poet finished his secondary school studies and later visited the Law School of the [[Athens University]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. He abandoned the family name as a young man in order to dissociate his writing from the family soap business</ins>. His first appearance as a poet in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>1935<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>through the magazine "Nea Grammata" ("New Culture") was saluted as an important event and the new style he introduced - though giving rise to a great many reactions - succeeded in prevailing and effectively contributing to the poetical reform commencing in the Second World War's eve and going on up to our days<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. This avant-garde magazine was a prime vehicle for the "Generation of the '[[30s]]," an influential school that included [[George Seferis]], who in [[1963]] became the first Greek Nobel laureate for literature</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[1937]] he visited the Reserve Officer's Cadet School in [[Corfu]]. Upon the outbreak of the war he served in the rank of Second Lieutenant, first at the Headquarters of the 1st Army Corps and then at the 24th Regiment, on the advanced fire line. During the German occupation and later, after Greece was liberated, he has been unabatedly active, publishing successive collections of poetry and writing essays concerning contemporary poetry and art problems.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">§</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In [[1937]] he visited the Reserve Officer's Cadet School in [[Corfu]]. Upon the outbreak of the war he served in the rank of Second Lieutenant, first at the Headquarters of the 1st Army Corps and then at the 24th Regiment, on the advanced fire line. During the German occupation and later, after Greece was liberated, he has been unabatedly active, publishing successive collections of poetry and writing essays concerning contemporary poetry and art problems. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">He became something of a bard among young Greeks; one of his poems, Asma heroiko kai penthimo gia ton chameno anthypolochago tes Alvanias ([[1945]]; "Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign"), became an anthem to the cause of freedom. After the war he lapsed into literary silence for almost 15 years, returning to print in [[1959]] with To Axion Esti ("Worthy It Is"; The Axion Esti), a long poem reminiscent of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During the years [[1948]]-[[1952]] and [[1969]]-[[1972]] he settled in Paris. There, he listened to philology and literature lessons in the Sorbonne and got acquainted with the pioneers of the world's avant-garde (Reverdy, Breton, Tzara, Ungaretti, Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Giacometti). Starting from Paris he travelled and visited subsequently Switzerland, England, Italy and Spain. In 1948 he was the representative of Greece at the "International Meetings of Geneva", in 1949 at the Founding Congress of the "International Art Critics Union" in Paris and in 1962 at the "Incontro Romano della Cultura" in Rome.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During the years [[1948]]-[[1952]] and [[1969]]-[[1972]] he settled in Paris. There, he listened to philology and literature lessons in the Sorbonne and got acquainted with the pioneers of the world's avant-garde (Reverdy, Breton, Tzara, Ungaretti, Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Giacometti). Starting from Paris he travelled and visited subsequently Switzerland, England, Italy and Spain. In 1948 he was the representative of Greece at the "International Meetings of Geneva", in 1949 at the Founding Congress of the "International Art Critics Union" in Paris and in 1962 at the "Incontro Romano della Cultura" in Rome.</div></td></tr>
</table>Irlandoshttps://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Odysseus_Elytis&diff=4912&oldid=prevLazarus at 12:56, November 2, 20052005-11-02T12:56:00Z<p></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Descendant of an old family of [[Lesbos]], he was born in [[Heraklion]] (Candia) on the island of [[Crete]], [[November 2]], [[1911]]. Some time later his family settled permanently in Athens where the poet finished his secondary school studies and later visited the Law School of the [[Athens University]]. His first appearance as a poet in 1935 through the magazine "Nea Grammata" ("New Culture") was saluted as an important event and the new style he introduced - though giving rise to a great many reactions - succeeded in prevailing and effectively contributing to the poetical reform commencing in the Second World War's eve and going on up to our days.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Descendant of an old family of [[Lesbos]], he was born in [[Heraklion]] (Candia) on the island of [[Crete]], [[November 2]], [[1911]]. Some time later his family settled permanently in Athens where the poet finished his secondary school studies and later visited the Law School of the [[Athens University]]. His first appearance as a poet in 1935 through the magazine "Nea Grammata" ("New Culture") was saluted as an important event and the new style he introduced - though giving rise to a great many reactions - succeeded in prevailing and effectively contributing to the poetical reform commencing in the Second World War's eve and going on up to our days.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Lazarushttps://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Odysseus_Elytis&diff=4910&oldid=prevLazarus at 12:52, November 2, 20052005-11-02T12:52:32Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Elytis' poetry has marked, through an active presence of over forty years, a broad spectrum. Unlike others, he did not turn back to Ancient Greece or Byzantium but devoted himself exclusively to today's [[Hellenism]], of which he attempted - in a certain way based on psychical and sentimental aspects - to build up the mythology and the institutions. His main endeavour has been to rid his people's conscience from remorses unjustifiable, to complement natural elements through ethical powers, to achieve the highest possible transparency in expression and to finally succeed in approaching the mystery of light, "the metaphysic of the sun" - according to his own definition. A parallel way concerning technique resulted in introducing the "inner architecture", which is clearly perceptible in a great many works of his; mainly in the Axion Esti - It Is Worthy. This work - thanks to its setting to music by [[Mikis Theodorakis]] - was to be widely spread among all Greeks and grew to be a kind of the people's new gospel. Elytis' theoretical ideas have been expressed in a series of essays under the title (Offering) My Cards To Sight. Besides he applied himself to translating poetry and theatre as well as creating a series of collage pictures. Translations of his poetry have been published as autonomous books, in anthologies or in periodicals in eleven languages.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Elytis' poetry has marked, through an active presence of over forty years, a broad spectrum. Unlike others, he did not turn back to Ancient Greece or Byzantium but devoted himself exclusively to today's [[Hellenism]], of which he attempted - in a certain way based on psychical and sentimental aspects - to build up the mythology and the institutions. His main endeavour has been to rid his people's conscience from remorses unjustifiable, to complement natural elements through ethical powers, to achieve the highest possible transparency in expression and to finally succeed in approaching the mystery of light, "the metaphysic of the sun" - according to his own definition. A parallel way concerning technique resulted in introducing the "inner architecture", which is clearly perceptible in a great many works of his; mainly in the Axion Esti - It Is Worthy. This work - thanks to its setting to music by [[Mikis Theodorakis]] - was to be widely spread among all Greeks and grew to be a kind of the people's new gospel. Elytis' theoretical ideas have been expressed in a series of essays under the title (Offering) My Cards To Sight. Besides he applied himself to translating poetry and theatre as well as creating a series of collage pictures. Translations of his poetry have been published as autonomous books, in anthologies or in periodicals in eleven languages.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Lazarushttps://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Odysseus_Elytis&diff=4909&oldid=prevLazarus at 12:50, November 2, 20052005-11-02T12:50:40Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Elytis' poetry has marked, through an active presence of over forty years, a broad spectrum. Unlike others, he did not turn back to Ancient Greece or Byzantium but devoted himself exclusively to today's [[Hellenism]], of which he attempted - in a certain way based on psychical and sentimental aspects - to build up the mythology and the institutions. His main endeavour has been to rid his people's conscience from remorses unjustifiable, to complement natural elements through ethical powers, to achieve the highest possible transparency in expression and to finally succeed in approaching the mystery of light, "the metaphysic of the sun" - according to his own definition. A parallel way concerning technique resulted in introducing the "inner architecture", which is clearly perceptible in a great many works of his; mainly in the Axion Esti - It Is Worthy. This work - thanks to its setting to music by [[Mikis Theodorakis]] - was to be widely spread among all Greeks and grew to be a kind of the people's new gospel. Elytis' theoretical ideas have been expressed in a series of essays under the title (Offering) My Cards To Sight. Besides he applied himself to translating poetry and theatre as well as creating a series of collage pictures. Translations of his poetry have been published as autonomous books, in anthologies or in periodicals in eleven languages.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Elytis' poetry has marked, through an active presence of over forty years, a broad spectrum. Unlike others, he did not turn back to Ancient Greece or Byzantium but devoted himself exclusively to today's [[Hellenism]], of which he attempted - in a certain way based on psychical and sentimental aspects - to build up the mythology and the institutions. His main endeavour has been to rid his people's conscience from remorses unjustifiable, to complement natural elements through ethical powers, to achieve the highest possible transparency in expression and to finally succeed in approaching the mystery of light, "the metaphysic of the sun" - according to his own definition. A parallel way concerning technique resulted in introducing the "inner architecture", which is clearly perceptible in a great many works of his; mainly in the Axion Esti - It Is Worthy. This work - thanks to its setting to music by [[Mikis Theodorakis]] - was to be widely spread among all Greeks and grew to be a kind of the people's new gospel. Elytis' theoretical ideas have been expressed in a series of essays under the title (Offering) My Cards To Sight. Besides he applied himself to translating poetry and theatre as well as creating a series of collage pictures. Translations of his poetry have been published as autonomous books, in anthologies or in periodicals in eleven languages.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Lazarushttps://wiki.phantis.com/index.php?title=Odysseus_Elytis&diff=4907&oldid=prevLazarus at 12:33, November 2, 20052005-11-02T12:33:44Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Descendant of an old family of [[Lesbos]], he was born in [[Heraklion]] (Candia) on the island of [[Crete]], [[November 2]], [[1911]]. Some time later his family settled permanently in Athens where the poet finished his secondary school studies and later visited the Law School of the [[Athens University]]. His first appearance as a poet in 1935 through the magazine "Nea Grammata" ("New Culture") was saluted as an important event and the new style he introduced - though giving rise to a great many reactions - succeeded in prevailing and effectively contributing to the poetical reform commencing in the Second World War's eve and going on up to our days.<br />
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In [[1937]] he visited the Reserve Officer's Cadet School in [[Corfu]]. Upon the outbreak of the war he served in the rank of Second Lieutenant, first at the Headquarters of the 1st Army Corps and then at the 24th Regiment, on the advanced fire line. During the German occupation and later, after Greece was liberated, he has been unabatedly active, publishing successive collections of poetry and writing essays concerning contemporary poetry and art problems.§<br />
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He has twice been Programme Director of the [[Greek National Radio Foundation]] (1945-46 and 1953-54), Member of the National Theatre's Administrative Council, President of the Administrative Council of the [[Greek Radio and Television Service]] as well as Member of the Consultative Committee of the Greek National Tourist's Organisation on the [[Athens Festival]]. In [[1960]] he was awarded the First State Poetry Prize, in [[1965]] the Order of the Phoenix Brigade and in [[1975]] he was proclaimed Doctor Honoris Causa of the Philosophical School of the Thessaloniki University and Honorary Citizen of the Town of Mytilene.<br />
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During the years [[1948]]-[[1952]] and [[1969]]-[[1972]] he settled in Paris. There, he listened to philology and literature lessons in the Sorbonne and got acquainted with the pioneers of the world's avant-garde (Reverdy, Breton, Tzara, Ungaretti, Matisse, Picasso, Chagall, Giacometti). Starting from Paris he travelled and visited subsequently Switzerland, England, Italy and Spain. In 1948 he was the representative of Greece at the "International Meetings of Geneva", in 1949 at the Founding Congress of the "International Art Critics Union" in Paris and in 1962 at the "Incontro Romano della Cultura" in Rome.<br />
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In [[1961]], upon an invitation of the State Department, he traveled through the U.S.A.; and - upon similar invitations - through the Soviet Union in [[1963]] and Bulgaria in [[1965]].<br />
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Elytis' poetry has marked, through an active presence of over forty years, a broad spectrum. Unlike others, he did not turn back to Ancient Greece or Byzantium but devoted himself exclusively to today's [[Hellenism]], of which he attempted - in a certain way based on psychical and sentimental aspects - to build up the mythology and the institutions. His main endeavour has been to rid his people's conscience from remorses unjustifiable, to complement natural elements through ethical powers, to achieve the highest possible transparency in expression and to finally succeed in approaching the mystery of light, "the metaphysic of the sun" - according to his own definition. A parallel way concerning technique resulted in introducing the "inner architecture", which is clearly perceptible in a great many works of his; mainly in the Axion Esti - It Is Worthy. This work - thanks to its setting to music by [[Mikis Theodorakis]] - was to be widely spread among all Greeks and grew to be a kind of the people's new gospel. Elytis' theoretical ideas have been expressed in a series of essays under the title (Offering) My Cards To Sight. Besides he applied himself to translating poetry and theatre as well as creating a series of collage pictures. Translations of his poetry have been published as autonomous books, in anthologies or in periodicals in eleven languages.<br />
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'''Odysseus Elytis'' died on [[March 18]], [[1996]].<br />
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==Literature==<br />
*"Orientations" ([[1940]])<br />
*"Sun - The First" ([[1943]])<br />
*"An Heroic And Funeral Chant For The Lieutenant Lost In Albania" ([[1946]])<br />
*"To Axion Esti" - "It Is Worthy" ([[1959]])<br />
*"Six Plus One Remorses For The Sky" ([[1960]])<br />
*"The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty" ([[1972]])<br />
*"The Sovereign Sun" ([[1972]])<br />
*"The Trills Of Love" ([[1973]])<br />
*"The Monogram" ([[1973]])<br />
*"Step-Poems" ([[1974]])<br />
*"(Offering) My Cards To Sight" ([[1974]])<br />
*"The Painter Theophilos" ([[1973]])<br />
*"Second Writing" ([[1976]])<br />
*"The Magic Of Papadiamantis" ([[1976]])<br />
*"Signalbook" ([[1977]])<br />
*"Maria Nefeli" ([[1978]])<br />
*"Selected poems" Ed. E. Keeley and Ph. Sherrard ([[1981]])<br />
*"Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience" ([[1982]])<br />
*"Diary of an Invisible April" ([[1984]])<br />
*"The Little Mariner" ([[1988]])<br />
*"What I Love. Selected Poems" ([[1986]])<br />
*"Krinagoras" ([[1987]])<br />
*"The Elegies of Oxopetras" ([[1991]])<br />
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==Reference Works==<br />
*Mario Vitti: Odysseus Elytis. Literature 1935-1971 (Icaros 1977)<br />
*Tasos Lignadis: Elytis' Axion Esti ([[1972]])<br />
*Lili Zografos: Elytis - The Sun Drinker ([[1972]]); as well as the special issue of the American magazine Books Abroad dedicated to the work of Elytis (Autumn 1975. Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.)<br />
*Odysseus Elytis: Anthologies of Light. Ed. I. Ivask ([[1981]])<br />
*A. Decavalles: Maria Nefeli and the Changeful Sameness of Elytis' Variations on a theme (1982)<br />
*E. Keeley: Elytis and the Greek Tradition ([[1983]])<br />
*Ph. Sherrard: Odysseus Elytis and the Discovery of Greece, in Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 1(2), [[1983]]<br />
*K. Malkoff: Eliot and Elytis: Poet of Time, Poet of Space, in Comparative Literature, 36(3), [[1984]]<br />
*A. Decavalles: Odysseus Elytis in the 1980s, in World Literature Today, 62(l), [[1988]]<br />
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==Translations==<br />
*Poesie. Procedute dal Canto eroico e funebre per il sottotenente caduto in Albania. Trad. Mario Vitti (Roma. Il Presente. 1952)<br />
*21 Poesie. Trad. Vicenzo Rotolo (Palermo. Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici. 1968)<br />
*Poèmes. Trad. Robert Levesque ([[1945]])<br />
*Six plus un remords pourle ciel. Trad. F. B. Mache (Fata Morgana. Montpellier 1977)<br />
*Korper des Sommers. Übers. Barbara Schlörb (St. Gallen 1960)<br />
*Sieben nächtliche Siebenzeiler. Übers. Günter Dietz (Darmstadt 1966)<br />
*To Axion Esti - Gepriesen sei. Übers. Güinter Dietz (Hamburg 1969)<br />
*The Axion Esti. Trans. Edmund Keeley and G. Savidis (Pittsburgh, U.S.A. 1974)<br />
*The Sovereign Sun. Trans. Kinom Friar (Philadelphia, U.S.A. 1974)<br />
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