Kostas Karyotakis

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Kostas Karyotakis


Born
in Tripoli, Greece
October 30, 1896

Died
July 20, 1928

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Kostas Karyotakis (Greek: Κώστας Καρυωτάκης) is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece.

His poetry conveys a great deal of nature imagery and traces of expressionism and surrealism. The majority of Karyotakis' contemporaries viewed him in a dim light throughout his lifetime without a pragmatic accountability for their contemptuous views; for after his suicide,the majority began to revert to the view that he was indeed a great poet. He had a significant, almost disproportionately progressive influence on later Greek poets.
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Average rating: 4.48 · 1,021 ratings · 50 reviews · 21 distinct worksSimilar authors
Ποιήματα και πεζά

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4.44 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 1981 — 10 editions
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Ποιήματα

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4.47 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 1966 — 10 editions
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Νηπενθή

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4.61 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1921 — 3 editions
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Ελεγεία και σάτιρες

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4.58 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1927 — 2 editions
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Τα λόγια σαν κομμάτια

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4.57 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1998
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Τα πεζά

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4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1965
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Έρωτας και θάνατος στη σκιά...

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Κώστας Καρυωτάκης: Με τ' όν...

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Ballad for the Unsung Poets...

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Σατιρικά

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