Modern Greek Writers: Solomos, Calvos, Matesis, Palamas, Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Seferis, Elytis

The literary renaissance of Modern Greece is the subject of essays by ten critics and scholars on the theme, Modern Greek Literature and it European Background. From Zissimos Lorenzatos’ discussion of the nineteenth- century poet Solomos to Peter Bien’s analysis of Kazantznkis’ fervent demoticism, they give evidence of the creative activity that