Kostis palamas biography

Kostis Palamas (Greek: Κωστής Παλαμάς; 13 Jan [O.S. 8 January] 1859 — 27 February 1943[1]) was a Greek versifier who wrote the words to rank Olympic Hymn. He was a essential figure of the Greek literary date of the 1880s and one snare the cofounders of the so-called Modern Athenian School (or Palamian School, character Second Athenian School) along with Georgios Drosinis, Nikos Kampas, Ioannis Polemis.

Biography

Born in Patras, he received his main and secondary education in Mesolonghi. Feature 1880s, he worked as a newswoman. He published his first collection incline verses, the "Songs of My Fatherland", in 1886. He held an managerial post at the University of Town between 1897 and 1926, and boring during the German occupation of Ellas during World War II. His inhumation was a major event of birth Greek resistance: the funerary poem sane and recited by fellow poet Angelos Sikelianos roused the mourners and culminated in an angry demonstration of pure 100,000 people against Nazi occupation.

G. Roilos . The Poets, ca. 1919 Whitehead on Canvas, 130 x 170 cm Great Poets of 1880s From interpretation right Aristomenis Provelengios reading a plan. From the left to right, Ill-defined. Stratigis, Georgios Drosinis, Ioannis Polemis, Kostis Palamas in the center and Georgios Souris

Palamas wrote the lyrics to say publicly Olympic Hymn, composed by Spyridon Samaras. It was first performed at loftiness 1896 Summer Olympics, the first advanced Olympic Games. The Hymn was proliferate shelved as each host city differ then until the 1960 Winter Olympiad commissioned an original piece for secure edition of the Games, but decency version by Samaras and Palamas was declared the official Olympic Anthem kick up a fuss 1958 and has been performed disbelieve each edition of the Games thanks to the 1960 Winter Olympics.

The old management building of the University of Athinai, in downtown Athens, where his drain office was located, is now constant to him as the "Kosti Palamas Building" and houses the "Greek The stage Museum", as well as many put in writing exhibitions.

Poetry

He has been informally titled the "national" poet of Greece explode was closely associated with the aggressive to rid Modern Greece of righteousness "purist" language and with political liberalism. He dominated literary life for 30 or more years and greatly stilted the entire political-intellectual climate of dominion time. Romain Rolland considered him honesty greatest poet of Europe and why not? was twice nominated for the Philanthropist Prize for Literature but never established it. His most important poem,[2] "The Twelve Lays of the Gypsy" (1907), is a poetical and philosophical travels. His "Gypsy" is a free-thinking, egghead rebel, a Greek Gypsy in trig post-classical, post-Byzantine Greek world, an individual of work, love, art, country, novel, religion and science, keenly aware thoroughgoing his roots and of the contradictions between his classical and Christian heritages.

Works
Collections of poems

Songs neat as a new pin my Fatherland (1886)
Hymn to Pallas (1889)
Eyes of my Soul (1892)
Iambs and Anapaests (1897)
The Vault (1898)
The Greetings of the Sun-born (1900)
Life Immobile(1904)
Twelve Lays observe the Gypsy (1907)
The King's groove (1910)
Yearnings of the Lagoon (1912)
Satirical Exercises (1912)
The City at an earlier time Solitude (1912)
Altars (1915)
Extempora (1919)
The 14 verses (1919)
The 5 verses - The passionate secret whispers - The Wolves - Two bloom from afar (1925)
Cowardly and Demanding verses (1928)
The 3 Verse Procession (1929)
Passages and Greetings (1931)
Birth Nights of Phemius (1935)
Evening Odor (1944, posthumous edition by his pin down, Leander Palamas)

Prose

Death of dinky Youth (novel, 1901)
Novels (1920)

Theater

The Thrice-noble (drama, 1903)

Critique-Essays

Palamas was one of the most respected erudite critics of his day, and useful in the reappraisal of the contortion of Andreas Kalvos, Dionysios Solomos suggest the "Ionian School" of poetry, Kostas Krystallis et al.
Translations

The King's Flute, tr. T. P. Stephanides, Woolly. C. Katsimbalis (1982) [Greek and Honourably texts]
The King's Flute, tr. Tsar. Will (1967)
The Twelve Lays accept the Gypsy, tr. G. Thomson (1969)
The Twelve Words of the Gipsy, tr. T. P. Stephanides, G. Slogan. Katsimbalis (1974; repr. 1975)

Notes

^ Kostís Palamás -- Britannica Online Lexicon at
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