The Axion Esti
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0856463566
ISBN-13
9780856463563
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Imprint
Anvil Press Poetry
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 20th, 2007
Print length
112 Pages
Weight
176 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 15.60 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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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.'
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 most concentrated and richly faceted poems.’ It can be seen both as a secular oratorio, reflecting the Greek heritage and the country’s revolutionary spirit, and also as a kind of autobiography, in which the spiritual roots of the poet’s very individual sensibility are set in the wider philosophical context of the Greek tradition. In his evocation of eternal Greece, his vision of the war and its aftermath, and his concluding celebration of human life, Elytis is a true voice of our age – a deeply personal lyric poet who speaks for humanity at large.
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