Kostas Karyotakis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kostas Karyotakis

Greek poet

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1896

Place of Birth: Tripoli, Peloponnese Region, Greece

Date of Death: 21-Jul-1928

Profession: writer, poet, civil servant, translator

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Kostas Karyotakis (Greek: ??sta? ?a???t????, 11 November [OS October 30], 1896 – 20 July 1928) is 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.