Kostas Karyotakis

Greek poet

Kostas Karyotakis (Greek: Κώστας Καρυωτάκης, 11 November [OS October 30], 1896 – 20 July 1928) was considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece.

His poetry conveys a great deal of nature, imagery and traces of expressionism and surrealism.He also belongs to the Greek Lost Generation movement.

The majority of Karyotakis' contemporaries viewed him in a dim light throughout his lifetime without a pragmatic accountability for their contemptuous views; for after his suicide, the majority began to revert to the view that he was indeed a great poet.

He had a significant, almost disproportionately progressive influence on later Greek poets.

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