About this course

• Various forms that modern Greek poetry has developed over time, from the early 19th century to the present, including different stylistic trends and its continuous need for renewal and experimentation with formal and expressive boundaries.
• The fifteen-syllable verse in folk songs and refined personal poetry.
• The eleven-syllable and thirteen-syllable meters in refined personal poetry.
• The sonnet (Mavilis, Palamas).
• The liberated verse (1880–1930 – Palamas, Cavafy).
• Haiku poetry (from the Generation of the 1930s onwards).
• Free verse (from the Generation of the 1930s onwards).
• The prose poem (from the Generation of the 1930s onwards).