The Axion Esti
The Axion Esti
ODYSSEUS ELYTIS
EDMUND KEELEY
GEORGE SAVIDIS
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Copyright Date: 1974
Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw917
Pages: 104
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zw917
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The Axion Esti
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The Axion Estiis 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.

eISBN: 978-0-8229-8064-3
Subjects: Language & Literature
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw917.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw917.2
  3. FOREWORD
    FOREWORD (pp. ix-x)
    Samuel Hazo
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw917.3

    The hope of the International Poetry Forum is to be no less international than poetry itself. To be sure, such a hope invites certain practical limitations. While poetry has the destiny of speaking to all men at all times, the International Poetry Forum concerns itself with bringing particular poets into contact with as many people as possible right now. While poetry speaks ultimately from and to the common nationality of flesh and blood, the International Poetry Forum attempts in a proximate way to permit poets of different nationalities and alphabets to have their work known and understood by people of...

  4. PREFACE
    PREFACE (pp. xi-xiv)
    Edmund Keeley and George Savidis
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw917.4
  5. THE GENESIS
    THE GENESIS (pp. 1-14)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw917.5
  6. THE PASSION
    THE PASSION (pp. 15-58)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw917.6
  7. THE GLORIA
    THE GLORIA (pp. 59-76)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw917.7
  8. NOTES
    NOTES (pp. 79-86)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw917.8
  9. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 87-87)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw917.9