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6 September 2026

Greek modern poems

Constantine P. Cavafy The windows In these dark rooms where I live out empty days, I circle back and forth

Giorgos Seferis was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate.

Constantine P. Cavafy was a major Greek poet who worked as a journalist and civil servant.

Dionysios Solomos (1798-1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos…

Manolis Anagnostakis was a Greek poet and critic at the forefront of the Marxist and existentialist poetry movements…

Kostas Karyotakis is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s.