98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1997. 'Geographically speaking 'Oxopetra' is a promontory on the island of Astypalaea. It is the 'other rock'. For me, it is the farthest point of the land in the sea, the farthest point of our era in another era, and the farthest point of my life in death... Odysseus Elytis.' Odysseus Elytis was born in Crete in 1911 and published the first of his poems in 1935. He was... Read more

Introduction: Elytis in His Own Words, THE OXOPETRA ELEGIES,HARMLESS, HOPEFUL, UNHINDERED DAY, THE ICON, "EROS AND PSYCHE", GRÚNINGEN ELEGY, SOLOMOS: SUBMISSION AND AWE, LA PALLIDA MORTE, PAST MIDNIGHT, FRIDAY FOREVER RAINING, UNSIGNALLED , LOST COMMAGENE , THE PRESENTATION OF A PREFIGURED DEATH (IN SLEEP) , WORD OF JULY, THE OBSCURE VERB, THE ULTIMATE OF SATURDAYS

Biography

Odysseas Elytes, David Connolly