Odysseas Elytis

Friar (1974; repr. Gallen 1960)
Sieben nächtliche Siebenzeiler. During the war he was appointed Second Lieutenant placed initially at the 1st Army Corps Headquarters then transferred to the 24th Regiment on the first-line of the battlefields.

Odysseas Elytis (Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης born Οδυσσέας Αλεπουδέλλης; November 2 1911 – March 18 1996) was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world.