“Anything is true, is essential to the national.”
in Greek: "Εθνικόν το Αληθές"
Thoughts of the poet, prolegomena by Iakovos Polylas, "Poems, Icarus edition, 1961"
Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zakynthos, who is considered to be Greece's national poet. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty , which was set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros and became the Greek and Cypriot national anthem in 1865 and 1966 respectively. He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry. He is considered the national poet of Greece, not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to modern literature. Other notable poems include Ὁ Κρητικός , Ἐλεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι . A characteristic of his work is that no poem except the Hymn to Liberty was completed, and almost nothing was published during his lifetime.
[1] He lived in Corfu-Town between 1832-1857, his house you can see there from the outside.
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“Anything is true, is essential to the national.”
in Greek: "Εθνικόν το Αληθές"
Thoughts of the poet, prolegomena by Iakovos Polylas, "Poems, Icarus edition, 1961"
“Beautiful, moral world created in an angelic way.”
in Greek: "Όμορφος κόσμος, ηθικός, αγγελικά πλασμένος".
Sarcastic tone; from his poem "to Francesca Freiser"
“Beautiful, moral world, created in an angelic way.”
in Greek: "Όμορφος κόσμος, ηθικός, αγγελικά πλασμένος".
Sarcastic tone; from his poem "to Francesca Freiser"