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Dimitris Mortoyas, Konstantinos Kavafis, Manolis Anagnostakis, Yannis Ritsos en Nobelprijswinnaar Literatuur (in 1979) Odysseas Elytis, op muziek zet.
Zij zingt haar composities zelf, in het Grieks, en speelt tevens gitaar.
Deze productie ging in première in Parijs, maar werd ook in Thessaloniki opgevoerd ter ere van Odysseas Elytis.
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 Elytis - Biography
Elytis war einer der herausragendsten Dichter den griechischen Widerstandes und des Kampfes für die Freiheit, Seine tiefgehenden Erlebnisse schilderte er in
In Paris schloss er Freundschaft mit Autoren wie Breton, Eluard, Char, Jouve und Michaux und mit Künstlern wie Matisse, Picasso und Giacometti.
Odysseas Elytis erhielt 1979 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.
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  Odysseus Elytis
Inspired by the 'sanctity of the perceiving senses' Elytis celebrated in his early poems the mystery of the Greek light, the sea, and the air.
Elytis died of a heart attack on March 18, 1996.
Elytis was also a talented painter and produced illustrations of his lyrical world in gouaches and collages.
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 Mikis Theodorakis - The Home Page - Odysseas Elytis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Odysseas Elytis, pen-name for Odysseus Alepoudhiéis, was born in 1911 at Herakleion in Crete.
After the war Elytis was engaged in various public assignments (among other things he was head of programs at the radio) and, apart from literary and art criticism, published very little for more than ten years.
Odysseas Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979.
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 Lyrics Elytis
Elytis was born in Iráklion, Crete, into a prosperous Cretan family.
In 1953 Elytis returned to Greece and took an active role in cultural affairs.
In the poem alternating monologues are spoken by a girl and a poet.
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 Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis (Οδυσσέας Ελύτης) was the pseudonym of Odysseas Alepoudelis (November 2, 1911 –March 18, 1996), a Greek poet.
Elytis wrote Neon Grammaton or New Letters, In that time, he worked in pages from old and newer Greek writers including Giorgos Seferis, G. Theotokas, Angelos Terzakis, K. Politis, Angelos Sikelianos, etc.) he brought Westernized thoughts and ideas into Greek literature and began to think from newer poets with translations on some works in articles.
Elytis met Andreas Empeirikos a month later, he first presented surrealism in the Greek works, Empeirikos was Elytis' friend for 25 years.
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Elytis became almost a national institution in his native country, to the extent that radio and television programmes were interrupted yesterday with the announcement of his death.
The passing of Elytis is a testament to that disappearing "oral culture" that was still strong in the Greece of his generation.
Elytis, a recluse known for his spartan lifestyle, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1979, becoming the second Greek poet to receive the award.
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Er knüpfte enge Beziehungen zu Schriftstellern wie Breton, Eluard, Char, Jouve und Michaux, sowie zu Künstlern wie Matisse, Picasso und Giacometti.
Der Gedichtzyklus „AXION ESTI“, dessen einleitende Worte aus der griechisch - orthodoxen Liturgie stammen, wird allgemein als Elytis` größtes Werk betrachtet.
1979 erhielt Elytis für dieses Werk den Nobelpreis.
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 Odyseas Elytis
Odysseus Elytis, pen-name for Odysseus Alepoudhiéis, was born in 1911 at Herakleion in Crete.
The family, which originally came from Lesbos, moved in 1914 to Athens, where Elytis, after leaving school, began to read law.
The poetic cycle To Áxion Estí (with introductory words taken from the Greek-Orthodox liturgy) has come to be recognized as Elytis' greatest work.
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Elytis' poetry has marked, through an active presence of over forty years, a broad spectrum.
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.
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Elytis' earliest poems exhibited a strong individuality of tone and setting within the Surrealist mode.
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.
Elytis lived in Paris for a short time after the Greek military coup of 1967.
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 Elytis - Biography
La famille, qui est venue à l'origine de Lesbos, s'est installée en 1914 à Athènes, où Elytis a commencé à étudier.
Des expériences profondément vécues se retrouvent dans l'oeuvre qui a rendu Elytis célèbre comme un des poèts les plus proéminents de la résistance et du combat grecs pour la liberté: Ásma iroikó ke pénthimo yia ton haméno anthipolohaghó tis Alvanías (Chant héroïque et élégiaque pour le Second Lieutenant perdu de la Campagne d'Albanie) 1945.
Odysseas Elytis a obtenu en 1979 le Prix Nobel de Littérature.
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 Odysseas Elytis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elytis and Teriade had formed a strong friendship that solidified in 1939 with the publication of Elytis first book of poetry entitled "Orientations".
Both Elytis and Teriade hailed from Lesbos and had a mutual love of the Greek painter Theophilos.
This work due 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.
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Apart from the modern lifestyle, Ios Greece retains much of its traditional charm and holds several island-style festivities.
During the summer, you can attend a variety of cultural events at Odysseas Elytis Amphitheater, located on the top of the hill in Ios Town (Chora).
At the top of the Ios Town Hill is the Odysseas Elytis Amphitheater, which offers a stunning view of the island and the deep blue Aegean.
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 Odysseas Elytis Summary
Odysseas Elytis(Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης)(November 21 1911- March 18 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important modern poets of Greece.
'Elytis' was a pen name, while his family name was 'Alepoudelis'.
Below, Decavalles explores one of Elytis's principle themes, the "progressive story of Eros's nature … his external and internal discoveries in the process of building a world at once natural, human esthetic, earthly and universal, timely and timeless, finite and infinite, mortal yet immortal.
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 Odysseus Elytis - Biography
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.
Decavalles: Maria Nefeli and the Changeful Sameness of Elytis' Variations on a theme (1982)
Malkoff: Eliot and Elytis: Poet of Time, Poet of Space, in Comparative Literature, 36(3), 1984
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 AGNI | 56 | Poetry | from With Light and Death by Odysseas Elytis
from With Light and Death by Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis was born in Crete in 1911.
He studied law at the University of Athens and in 1960 won the National Prize in poetry.
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Being tough to your future suggests how tender you already are to the elements you have secretely chosen to compose it.
Odysseas Elytis, 1911-1996, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1979
Axion Esti (Worthy It Is) by Odysseas Elytis (The most acclaimed
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Odysseus Elytis: From the Golden to the Silver Poem by Andonis Decavalles on 27 pages
The eternal conflict and balance between Light and Dark is chronicled.
Elytis speaks with a universality that transcends war and history specific to Greece--his message is applicable to all peoples and times.
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 Translations of ODYSSEAS ELYTIS POETRY (by G.A. Stathis)
Translations of ODYSSEAS ELYTIS POETRY (by G.A. Stathis)
Odysseas Elytis died in March 1996, aged 85.
Just before he died, Odysseas Elytis  wrote a couple of little books, one of which was called "West of Sorrow", the other "2x7e" (-where the 'e' is an  'epsilon').
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 Perihelion
Odysseus Elytis, recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born to a wealthy family in Iraklion, Crete.
He attended the University of Athens School of Law, but he dropped out to pursue his literary career.
Nicknamed "the sun-drinking poet," Elytis' work reflects the influence of the French Surrealism movement.
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 Odysseas Elytis Poetry
Olga Broumas is originally from Hermoupolis, Greece and moved to the United States at the age of 18.
She is the author of six books of poetry, three collaborations and four books of Odysseas Elytis translations.
She has won many grants and awards for her work, including the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1977, the National Endowment of the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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der Sammlung Sieben nächtliche Siebenzeiler, Bläschke Verlag, St. Michael (Österreich) 1966, um die Gedichte des Orions erweitert.) 45 S. Elytis, Odysseas
Späte Gedichte [Ta elegeia tis oxopetras, Ditika tis lipis] Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt/M 2001, 112 S. Elytis, Odysseas
19792.116 S. Ders.: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt/M. Elytis, Odysseas
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 Book Information: Collected Poems of Odysseas Elytis :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
Book Information: Collected Poems of Odysseas Elytis :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
This volume collects the complete works of Nobel Laureate (1979) Odysseus Elytis.
Throughout his career, the poet has maintained a vision of a poetry which addresses the power of language and links Greece's 2000 years of myth and history with the social and psychological demands of the modern age.
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Once in a while let me sleep out at sea With sail-cloths flapping in the wind and spray, A mess-fire in the stone-base blazing free Under the bubbling pot; and let me stay Close, close beside the unwashed cabin-boy; A plank for table; "Give-and-Take" to play; Sailors for gossip.
To ferry him as he should come, his slim whiteness high on my shoulders, into the white harbour of Rhodes, sweet haunt of boys, his island-home.
---------------------------------------------------------------- On the wider theme of 'The Sea', here are two poems by Nobel prize-winner "Odysseas Elytis" (Psued.
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In 1982 she was sold to Greek owners
In 1985, Odysseas Elytis was sold a DFDS subsidiary and renamed
Official NEL Lines postcard of Odysseus Elytis at Mytileni in 1965.
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 Berkeley, November 17: Elytis memorial program
On Sunday, November 17, 1996, the Center for Modern Greek Studies, Nikos Kazantzakis Chair at San Francisco State University, in cooperation with the Modern Greek Program of UC Berkeley, will present a memorial program honoring 1979 Nobel prize winner Odysseas Elytis who died last March.
The program will include comments on the poetry of Elytis by Professor Martha Klironomos and by poet Nanos Valaoritis, recitations of Elytis' poems in Greek and in English translation, and poems of Elytis set to music by contemporary Greek composers, including Mikis Theodorakis and Yannis Markopoulos.
The program will begin at 3:00 pm at the UC Berkeley International House, Golub Homeroom (Piedmont and Bancroft Streets).
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Every corner of the Santorini has its own history and mystery and the whole island breathes a romantic atmosphere, that you cannot find somewhere else.
The caldera’s sublime beauty has moved poets like Nobel Literature Winner Odysseas Elytis to compose odes of exaltation and transported more prosaic admirers to hyperbole and tears.
Out of the bowels of the thunder you came
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