Takis Sinopoulos (; Pyrgos, Elis, March 17, 1917 – Athens, April 25, 1981) was a Greek poet and a leading figure among the so-called first postwar generation of Greek poets. A doctor by profession, he came of age at the beginning of perhaps the most terrible decade of Greece's recent history, running from the Metaxas dictatorship through war, occupation and the horrors of civil war, many of which he experienced at first hand.Ricks, David. "The Shadow of the Greek Civil War in the Poetry of Takis Sinopoulos", in The Greek Civil War, edited by Philip Carabott & Thanasis D. Sfikas, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004. These experiences, and their exorcism, inform much of his work, as did the colonels' dictatorship of 1967–1974. Alongside his poetry, he was an astute and prolific critic as well as a talented painter, and his encouragement help launch the very much younger poets who became known as the generation of the seventies.
Principal publications No Man's Land, 1952 Songs, 1953 The Meeting with Max, 1956 Helen, 1958 Night and Counterpoint, 1959 The Song of Joanna and Constantine, 1961 The Poetry of Poetry, 1964 Deathfeast, 1972 Stones, 1972 Chronicle, 1975 The Map, 1977 The Book of Night, 1978
Translations
Landscape of Death The Selected Poems of Takis Sinopoulos, tr. K. Friar (1979) [Greek & English texts] Selected Poems, tr. J. Stathatos (1981)
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