Odysseas Elytis | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of Odysseas Elytis.

Odysseas Elytis | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of Odysseas Elytis.
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SOURCE: "Elegiac Elytis: 'Elegies of Jutting Rock'," in World Literature Today, Vol. 66, No. 3, Summer, 1992, pp. 445-46.

In the following review, Carson discusses Elytis's use of elegy as the form for his Ta elegia tis Oxopetras.

Odysseus Elytis's eightieth birthday, on 2 November 1991 was widely celebrated in Greece. Literary journals undertook dedicatory issues, television and radio produced special programs, concerts were given. Elytis answered us with the best gift of all, a new volume of poems, Ta eleyía tis Oxópetras (The Elegies of Jutting Rock), his fourth since his Nobel Prize in 1979.

Jung suggests that the artist in old age must reverse the expansions of youth and focus on what is most meaningful and permanent. The aged Rembrandt's sitters radiate a dim halo of inner, unnatural light, and Titian's later backgrounds smolder with sanguine brushstrokes. The old Yeats climbs in his last works toward a joyful simplicity based...

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