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Critical Essay by Kostas Myrsiades
["Belfry"] passes through three movements: the first ambiguous and ephemeral, the second moving toward the concrete (a transition movement), and the th...
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Critical Essay by Kostas Myrsiades
Yannis Ritsos's output since his first published book in 1934 has been almost exclusively poetic. His latest book, "Studies," a selection of six...
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Critical Essay by Minas Savvas
The poems in this exciting little collection [Pétrinos hrónos] are not among the best of Yannis Ritsos's fifty volumes. They are, however, among the...
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Critical Essay by Rachel Hadas
The career of Yannis Ritsos has been uncomfortably paradigmatic of the political fortunes of his native Greece. For much of this century Ritsos has been a major poetic s...
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Critical Essay by Kostas Myrsiades
Ritsos views modern man as the sum of the possibilities of his past. If those possibilities are less than evident in the present, then the task of modern man is to t...
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Critical Essay by Kimon Friar
Yánnis Rítsos published, in 1934, his first poems of social content in a book belligerently entitled Tractor. Although influenced by Palamás' ...
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Critical Essay by Rachel Hadas
Aristotle says in the Poetics that no work of art or nature can be beautiful if it is too big to be seen all at once. Because of the quantity of Ritsos' output, a...
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Critical Essay by Choice
In all his vast output of verse, Yánnis Rítsos has seldom published any love poetry…. For so verbally sensuous a poet this was odd. Now, unpredictable as ...
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Critical Essay by Peter Levi
Yannis Ritsos is the old-fashioned kind of great poet. His output has been enormous, his life heroic and eventful, his voice is an embodiment of national courage, his mind...
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Critical Essay by Samuel Hazo
[The Fourth Dimension] is the most complete gathering of Ritsos's work yet published in English….
Although Ritsos shares with a poet like Francis Ponge a co...
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Critical Essay by Philip Sherrard
[In The Fourth Dimension,] Dalven's translations convey the style and verve of the poetry with considerable success….
[But here] it must be said that, i...
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Critical Essay by Kimon Friar
Ritsos himself has written about his urge since early childhood in Laconia to write laconic poems, recognizing that this is no simple play on words but a temperamental ne...
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Critical Essay by George Economou
"The Fourth Dimension" offers a representative cross section of [Ritsos's] work from 1938 to 1974, and contains a liberal selection of short poem...
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Critical Essay by Edmund Keeley
The title [Ritsos in Parentheses] I have given this selection of translations is not as playful as it may seem. Two of the three groups of poems by Ritsos from which th...
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Critical Essay by Vernon Young
Ritsos' poetry is filled with invisible guests, wilfully invisible to one another at times, if merely inscrutable to the poet. And this partial visibility becomes...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
The poems of Ritsos in Parentheses were culled from three sources: a volume titled Parentheses, 1946–47; a second collection, Parentheses, 1950–61, still unp...
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Critical Essay by Kostas Myrsiades
