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Elytis

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El·y·tis  (l-ts), Odysseus 1911-1996.
Greek poet. He won the 1979 Nobel Prize for literature.

Elytis [ɛˈlaɪtɪs]
n
(Biographies / Elytis, Odysseus (1912-1996) M, Greek, WRITING: poet) Odysseus, real name Odysseus Alepoudelis. 1912-96, Greek poet, author of the long poems Axion Est (1959) and Maria Nefeli (1978): Nobel prize for literature 1979


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The Copper Canyon list includes such poets as Olga Broumas, Hayden Carruth, Cyrus Cassells, Odysseas Elytis, Carolyn Kizer, Thomas McGrath, Cesare Pavese, Kenneth Rexroth, and Eleanor Wilner.
For the modern Greek wanderers Seferis, Elytis and Kazantzakis, the Odyssey serves a centering function similar to the Romanian's Miorita, with this difference: the locus for the Greek writer's homesickness is a geographical nostalgia.
 
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