Palamas, Kostes. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
- English
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shown in filters: Personalia Greek poet. He studied at the Univ. of Athens of which he later was secretary for many years. Except in his early work, he wrote in demotic or vernacular Greek and translated into this idiom the New Testament and the works of various European writers. His own verse is considered more intellectual than lyric, although his lament Taphos (1898) is an exception. [ eng ] |