3 Books of Poetry by Odysseus Elytis
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Overview: ODYSSEUS ELYTIS (1911-1996) was a Greek poet who was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy declared in its presentation that his poetry "depicts with sensual strength and intellectual clearsightedness, modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness. . . [In] its combination of fresh, sensuous flexibility and strictly disciplined implacability in the face of all compulsion, Elytis' poetry gives shape to its distinctiveness, which is not only very personal but also represents the traditions of the Greek people."

Elytis addresses the power of language and connects the history and mythology of Greece to the physical world and to the realities of the modern age. Renowned for their lyricism and profound optimism, his poems capture the natural wonders of Greece and give voice to the contemporary Greek -- and a more universally human -- consciousness.
Genre: Poetry



The following books are in PDF format:

* The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis (Johns Hopkins UP, 1997). Translated by Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris.
Originally published in 1997, The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis, translated into English by Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris, was the first complete collection of Elytis's poems in any language. Included in this landmark volume were Elytis's early poems, influenced in equal parts by surrealism and the natural world; Song Heroic and Mourning for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign, his epic poem connecting Greece's―and his own―Second World War experience to the myth of the eternal Greek hero; his most ambitious work, The Axion Esti; and his mature poetry, from Maria Nephele to West of Sorrow.

* Maria Nephele: A Poem in Two Voices (Houghton Mifflin, 1981). Translated by Athan Anagnostopoulos.
First published in Greece in 1979 (therefore a late Elytis work), this long sequence by the Nobel-winner is cloven in two: poems in the voice of a young, restless, sexual young woman, Maria Nephele, living a life ""at the antipodes of Ethics""; and those in the voice of the ""Antiphonist""--Elytis, the aged poet--whose viewpoint is more patient, saddened, aerial.

* The Sovereign Sun: Selected Poems (Temple UP, 1974). Translated by Kimon Friar.

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