Odysseas elytis biography of abraham
Odysseus Elytis - Biography
Descendant of an old family of Lesbos, he was born in Heraclion (Candia) on the island of Crete, November 2, 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 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.
In 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 has twice been Programme Director of the Greek National Radio Foundation ( and ), 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 he was awarded the First State Poetry Prize, in the Order of the Phoenix Brigade and in he was proclaimed Doctor Honoris Causa of the Philosophical School of the Thessaloniki University and Honorary Citizen of the Town of Mytilene.
During the years and 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 he was the representative of Greece at the "International Meetings of Geneva", in at the Founding Congress of the "International Art Critics Union" in Paris and in at the "Incontro Romano della Cultura" in Rome.
In , upon an invitation of the State Department, he traveled through the U.S.A.; and - upon similar invitations - through the Soviet Union in and Bulgaria in
Elytis' poetry has marked, through an active presence of over forty years, a broad spectrum.
Odysseas elytis biography of abraham maslow Elytis's poetry clearly resists superficial classifications. On the day he died three photographs of women that he had loved and influenced him were in his small apartment. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, Peripheral Post Modernity.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.
| Literature |
| "Orientations" () |
| "Sun - The First" () |
| "An Heroic And Funeral Chant For The Lieutenant Lost In Albania" () |
| "To Axion Esti" - "It Is Worthy" () |
| "Six Plus One Remorses For The Sky" () |
| "The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty" () |
| "The Sovereign Sun" () |
| "The Trills Of Love" () |
| "The Monogram" () |
| "Step-Poems" () |
| "(Offering) My Cards To Sight" () |
| "The Painter Theophilos" () |
| "Second Writing" () |
| "The Magic Of Papadiamantis" () |
| "Signalbook" () |
| "Maria Nefeli" () |
| "Selected poems" Ed.
E. Keeley and Ph. Sherrard () |
| "Three Poems under a Flag of Convenience" () |
| "Diary of an Invisible April" () |
| "The Little Mariner" () |
| "What I Love. Selected Poems" () |
| "Krinagoras" () |
| "The Elegies of Oxopetras" () |
| Reference Works |
| Mario Vitti: Odysseus Elytis.
Literature (Icaros ) |
| Tasos Lignadis: Elytis' Axion Esti () |
| Lili Zografos: Elytis - The Sun Drinker (); as well as the special issue of the American magazine Books Abroad dedicated to the work of Elytis (Autumn Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.) |
| Odysseus Elytis: Anthologies of Light.
Ed. I. Ivask () |
| A.Odysseas elytis biography of abraham Learn more about citation styles Citation styles Encyclopedia. From to , under the Greek military junta of — , Elytis exiled himself to Paris after he refused money from the junta and established a modest residence there. Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Indeed, he is the translator of numerous surrealist texts into Greek and has written extensively on the subject, many of these essays collected in the volume The Open Book. Decavalles: Maria Nefeli and the Changeful Sameness of Elytis' Variations on a theme () |
| E. Keeley: Elytis and the Greek Tradition () |
| Ph. Sherrard: Odysseus Elytis and the Discovery of Greece, in Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 1(2), |
| K. Malkoff: Eliot and Elytis: Poet of Time, Poet of Space, in Comparative Literature, 36(3), |
| A.
Decavalles: Odysseus Elytis in the s, in World Literature Today, 62(l), |
| Translations |
| Poesie. Procedute dal Canto eroico e funebre per il sottotenente caduto in Albania.Biography of isaac In this original, dynamic, and impressive poetic collage, the suffering and tragicomic aspects, hope and mediocrity of our aggressive and incongruous decade are dramatized. 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. The title of The book was "Rhythms and Beats" and she sent a first edition copy to George Seferis along with a hand written letter asking him to write a page of his poetry in long hand in fountain pen and gift it to her. While in bed recuperating he voraciously read all the Greek poetry he could and in this year discovered Cavafy. Trad. Mario Vitti (Roma. Il Presente. ) |
| 21 Poesie. Trad. Vicenzo Rotolo (Palermo. Istituto Siciliano di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici. ) |
Poèmes.Biography of abraham bible: While in bed recuperating he voraciously read all the Greek poetry he could and in this year discovered Cavafy. His poetry is an incantation, calling to life the immortal Greek world that has always been felt in the European consciousness. He also believed in vedic astrology and held certain beliefs of Hinduism to be true. Elytis, Odysseus gale. Trad. Robert Levesque () |
| Six plus un remords pourle ciel. Trad. F. B. Mache (Fata Morgana.Odysseas elytis biography of abraham lincoln In he was presented with an honorary doctorate from the Sorbonne in France, and in he received an honorary doctorate from the University of London. In , Mussolini's troops invaded Greece. Indebted for much of its tone, language, symbolism, and structure to the liturgy of the Greek Orthodox Church , The Axion Esti incorporates elements of Christianity and images of Grecian landscapes and culture while augmenting Elytis's concern for the spirituality of the material world. Translations of his poetry have been published as autonomous books, in anthologies or in periodicals in eleven languages. Montpellier ) |
| Korper des Sommers. Übers. Barbara Schlörb (St. Gallen ) |
| Sieben nächtliche Siebenzeiler. Übers. Günter Dietz (Darmstadt ) |
| To Axion Esti - Gepriesen sei. Übers. Güinter Dietz (Hamburg ) |
| The Axion Esti. Trans. Edmund Keeley and G. Savidis (Pittsburgh, U.S.A. ) |
| The Sovereign Sun. Trans. Kinom Friar (Philadelphia, U.S.A. ) |
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