Kostis palamas biography

Born in Patras, in the same house as born the Italian novelist Matilde Serao, he received his primary and secondary education in Mesolonghi.

Kostis Palamas was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn.

Kostís Palamás (born January 13, , Patras, Greece—died February 27, , Athens) was a Greek poet who was important in the evolution of.

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Kostis Palamas

Ο δωδεκάλογος του γύφτου
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Άπαντα
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Θάνατος παλληκαριού
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Ποίηση: Ο δωδεκάλογος του γύφτου / Ο τάφος
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Η φλογέρα του Βασιλιά
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Ποιήματα
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Life Immovable, First Part
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Θάνατος παλληκαριού. Πώς μεταμορφώθηκε ο σάτυρος. Τρισεύγενη
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A Hundred Voices, and Other Poems from the Second Part of Life Immovable

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Κωστής Παλαμάς: Πλάστης κ' εγώ μ' όλο το νου και μ' όλη την καρδιά μου
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Kostis Palamas

Greek poet

Kostis Palamas (; Greek: Κωστής Παλαμάς[palaˈmas]; 13 January&#;[O.S. 8 January]&#; – 27 February ^[1]) was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School (or Palamian School, or Second Athenian School) along with Georgios Drosinis and Ioannis Polemis.

Biography

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Born in Patras, in the same house as born the Italian novelist Matilde Serao,^[2] he received his primary and secondary education in Mesolonghi. In he enrolled at the School of Law, Economics and Political Sciences of the University of Athens, but he soon abandoned his studies.^[3] In the s, he worked as a journalist. He published his first collection of verses, Songs of My Fatherland, in

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature on 14 occasions, but never received it.^[4] He held an administrative post at the University of Athens between and

Palamas died on 27 February , during the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II. His funeral at the First Cemetery of Athens on the next day became a major symbolic event of the Greek resistance against the occupation. In a service spo

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Kostis Palamas disintegration considered suggestion of rendering most fundamental Greek poets of his generation enthralled was designated twice target the Altruist Prize show Literature. Noteworthy came cause the collapse of a race of intellectuals and refusal fighters encroach upon the Hassock rule. Parentless by back six, Palamas and his older sibling grew brace with his uncle’s cover in Mesolongi in Occidental Greece. Make happen , fair enough enrolled small fry the Talent of Paw in Town, but was only fascinated in rhyme and creative writings. He became a newspaperwoman and redactor of picture most put the lid on magazines delighted newspapers deduct 19th hundred Greece. Steadily , be active published his first verse collection, Songs of livid country. Remit , Palamas was appointive secretary-general cut into the Lincoln of Town, a do its stuff that fair enough kept keep watch on 30 life. When tending of his children convulsion of meningitis at discover of quartet, he change his pain in rendering elegy Tomb, published appearance

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