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Greek poet and critic

Manolis Anagnostakis (Greek: Μανόλης Αναγνωστάκης; 10 March 1925 – 23 June 2005) was a Greekpoet and critic at the forefront of the Marxist and existentialist poetry movements arising during and after the Greek Civil War in the late 1940s.

Anagnostakis was a leader amongst his contemporaries and influenced the generation of poets immediately after him.

My obsession with Greece began ten years ago, when, in my second year of college, I opted for Greek and Indian Classics as one of my papers.

Critics read Greek history but not the poetry of other countries into his work.

Anagnostakis was born in Thessalonica and trained as a medic, specializing in radiology.

It is quite remarkable that, for the foreign reader, the term 'Greek.

Is there a dividing line between the psychological and the somatic, and what is the connection between one's physiological processes and one's biography?

His poems have been honored in Greece's national awards and arranged and sung by contemporary musicians. In spite of his accomplishments, Philip Ramp notes that Anagnostakis "is the least known, to an English speaking audience, of the major Greek poets of his generation."^[1]

Life

Anagnostakis was born in Thessaloniki and trained as a doctor, specializing in radiology.

During the chaotic period of 1944, Anagnostakis served as the Editor-in-Chief of Xekinima (The Start), a student magazine. Anagnostakis' first book of poetry, Epoches (Seasons) was published in 1945, at which