Kostas Karyotakis (1896 – 1928) Ralleia Experimental Primary Schools Class ST1 Teacher: Petraki Evangelia School year: 2017-18
Kostas Karyotakis • Kostas Karyotakis (1896 – 1928) is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece.
Kostas Karyotakis • His poetry conveys a great deal of nature, imagery and traces of expressionism and surrealism.
Kostas Karyotakis • Karyotakis was born in Tripoli, Greece. Ηe moved with his family around the Greek cities, including Argostoli, Lefkada, Larisa, Kalamata, Athens and Chania. • He started publishing poetry in various magazines for children in 1912.
Kostas Karyotakis • He received his degree from the Athens School of Law and Political Sciences, in 1917.
Kostas Karyotakis • In February 1919 he published his first collection of poetry: The Pain of People and of Things. In the same year he published, with his friend Agis Levendis, a satirical review, called The Leg, which, despite its success, was banned by the police after the sixth issue.
Kostas Karyotakis • In 1921 he published his second collection called Nepenthe and also wrote a musical revue, Pell-Mell.
Kostas Karyotakis • In 1922 he began having an affair with the poet Maria Polydouri who was a colleague of his at the Prefecture of Attica. • In 1923 he wrote a poem called "Treponema pallidum", which was published under the title "Song of Madness".
Kostas Karyotakis • In 1924 he traveled abroad, visiting Italy and Germany. • In December 1927 he published his last collection of poetry: Elegy and Satires.
Kostas Karyotakis • Karyotakis lived in Preveza only for 33 days, until his suicide on 21 July 1928 at age 31.
Poems and collections • • • • • • • • • • • •
Xeprovodisma (1919 When you Came... (1919) Your Letters (1920) The Pain of Men and Things (1919) Nepenthe (1921) Song (1922) Lycabettus ( 1922) Treponema pallidum (1923) the Ash beyond the Horizon... Varium et Mutabile (1923)) Escape (1923) Prepare (1923) 1933)
Poems and collections • • • • •
Elegies and Satires (1927) Optimism (1929) Sunday (1929) Preveza (1930) When we get down the stairs... (1933)
Sources • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas_Karyotakis