Kostas Karyotakis
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Kostas Karyotakis is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece.
Kostas Karyotakis, self-portrait
The poet's birthplace in Tripoli
Kostas Karyotakis in Sykia village of Corinth, with his sister, nephew, and his brother's sister-in-law, year 1927
Optimism, hand written manuscript by Kostas Karyotakis
Maria Polydouri
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Maria Polydouri was a Greek poet who belonged to the school of Neo-romanticism.
Kostas Karyotakis
…collection called Nepenthe (Greek: Νηπενθῆ) and also wrote a musical revue, Pell-Mell (Greek: Πελ-Μελ). In 1922, he began having an affair with the poet Maria Polydouri who was a colleague of his at the Prefecture of Attica. In 1923 he wrote a poem called "Treponema pallidum" (Greek: Ὠχρὰ Σπειροχαίτη), which was published…
Polydouri in 1920.
Polydouri in 1918