Kostas Karyotakis
Poet, Author
1896 – 1928
Who was Kostas Karyotakis?
Kostas Karyotakis 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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- Born
- Oct 30, 1896
Tripoli - Also known as
- Karyotakis, Kostas
- Κώστας Καρυωτάκης
- Parents
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- Greeks
- Nationality
- Greece
- Profession
- Education
- Law degree, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Law
( - 1917)
- Law degree, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Lived in
- Peloponnese
- Died
- Jul 21, 1928
Preveza
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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