1821-1831: Along with freedom, the new literature is born. Poetry, prose, scholarship
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1821-1831: Along with freedom, the new literature is born. Poetry, prose, scholarship
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February 2021
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As soon as Ares flourished in Greece, the sweet Muse flourished with him, Palamas wrote in 1888, connecting Solomos with Kalvos. These top-tier poets two were not alone; they were joined by several others who, immediately after the outbreak of the struggle, felt that something had to change in the poetic landscape. During the years of the revolution, the songs of the illiterate people were paid attention to and published, but not by Greeks. Along with literature, thought also flourished. In this aspect another prominent figure as well, Korais leads; modernity invaded the Greek space at the same time that people were fighting to preserve the freedom they won quickly in 1821, but they also had to keep it alive. From the printing presses that the philhellenes sent to Rumelia, the Peloponnese, the islands, newspapers, political brochures and books came out, all oriented towards European values: unbounded thinking, democratic ideals, absolute freedom of the press. Most of them, translated works of the great masters of the Enlightenment, but also some originals as well. However, the explosive dynamics did not survive, Solomos and Kalvos fell silent, the new paths were extinguished, and the restart that Panagiotis Soutsos and Alexandros Rizos Ragavis tried in 1830 did not continue. The tradition of the revolution was the infrastructure of the new momentum brought by the generation of 1880s.
(Edited and translated blurb from publisher’s website)
(Edited and translated blurb from publisher’s website)
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