Odysseas Elytēs

Odysseas Elytes

A comprehensive collection of poetry by the Greek Nobel Prize-winner

Selected and Last Poems

Eros, Eros, Eros

Ποιηση

Selected Poems of Odysseas Elytis

What I Love

The Nobel Prize was awarded to Elytis in 1979 "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness." This volume contains translations of two late collections, the second published months before his death in 1995.

The Oxopetra Elegies and West of Sorrow

Kōstēs Palamas

Nikos Tselepides

Poems

Clear Days

The Oxopetra Elegies

Edmund Keeley

Philip Sherrard

"Odysseus Elytis is a pure and dedicated poet, whose work is abundant, original, and thrilling", wrote Peter Levi when Elytis (1911-96) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1979. This is a representative selection of his poems, drawn from all periods of his distinguished career, tracing his development from early surrealism, through the dramatic style of The Axion Esti with its blend of spirituality and earthiness, up to his later work.

Selected Poems

The Sovereign Sun

Anaphora ston Andrea Empeiriko

Emerologio enos atheatou apriliou

Bertolt Brecht

̈.̈ 'O ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈[Der kaukasische Kreidekreis, neugr.]

Odusseas Elutēs

The Nobel laureate's prizewinning poem tells of a young female radical of our age and comments on history, politics, and culture to create a portrait of the modern situation.

A Poem in Two Voices

Maria Nephele

When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out The Axion Esti, first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's concentrated and richly faceted poems.'

The Axion Esti

The Axion Esti is probably the most widely read volume of verse to have appeared in Greece since World War II and remains a classic today. Those who follow the music of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis have been especially drawn to Odysseus Elytis's work, his prose is widely considered a mirror to the revolutionary music of Theodorakis. The "autobiographical" elements are constantly colored by allusion to the history of Greece, thus, the poems express a contemporary consciousness fully resonant with those echoes of the past that have served most to shape the modern Greek experience.

Το Αξιον Εστι

Odysseas Elyt-Es

A selection of the poetry of this winner of the Nobel Prize demonstrates the development of his writing from his early works to recent experimental poems

A selection of the poetry of this winner of the Nobel Prize demonstrates the development of his writing from his early works to recent experimental poems.

Odysseas Elytēs

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