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• Anghelaki-Rooke, Katerina

The paper evaluates the legacy of our great poets - Seferis, Elytis, Ritsos - in terms of recent poetic production, given that they all had as a main poetic task to define or redefine our Greekness in the present time. For Seferis Greekness is this peculiar feeling, a glance that combines “ancient statues and contemporary sorrow”, meaning, of course, the Asia Minor disaster. Elytis found the line that unites all moments of Greekness in the sensation of the Aegean Sea. As to our poetics now, we can say that we witness a more private vision: the poet turns almost solely to himself, to the examination of his or her personal history in order to find the source of poetic inspiration. Parallelly there is a search in terms of language and form. Kiki Dimoula — an established poet of an older generation—in her very recent book plays increasingly with language, D. Kapsalis returns to rhymimg, while Haris Vlavianos, says: “In poetry nothing is real except the exaggeration of the self’.

• Languages and Literature
• Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

• Λογοτεχνία

ποίηση, ποιητική έμπνευση, ελληνικότητα