Epitaphios Phillis Levin but the war and then

but the war and then the death of his father forced him to leave without completing his degree

The urgency underlying these quiet poems reveals how the eye and imagination can

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a Latvian exile who joined the British literary community in Cairo during World War Two

"this will delight - and frighten a lot of people"

Epitaphios Phillis Levin but the war and thenOn 10 May 1936 the 27 year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Salonica tobacco factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos. Dedicated to the heroic workers of Salonika and drawing on the fourteenth century Greek Orthodox Epitaphios Thrinos, the poem combines Mary's lament at Christs tomb