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List of modern Greek poets

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJan 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ3244912 ↗
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This is a list of modern Greek poets (years link to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article).

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Andreas Kalvos (1792–1869)

Dionysios Solomos (1798–1857)

George Tsimbidaros-Fteris (1891–1967)

Andreas Laskaratos (1811–1901)

Aristotelis Valaoritis (1824–1879)

Kostis Palamas (1859–1943)

Athos Dimoulas (1921–1985)

Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933)

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957)

Angelos Sikelianos (1884–1951)

Kostas Varnalis (1884–1974)

Napoleon Lapathiotis (1889–1944)

Giannis Skarimpas (1893–1984)

Kostas Karyotakis (1896–1928)

Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971)

Andreas Empeirikos (1901–1975)

Maria Polydouri (1902–1930)

D.I. Antoniou (1906–1994)

Nikos Engonopoulos (1907–1985)

Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990)

Nikos Kavvadias (1910–1975)

Alexander Mátsas (1910–1969)

Odysseus Elytis (1911–1996)

Nikiforos Vrettakos (1912–1991)

Nikos Gatsos (1915–1992)

Takis Sinopoulos (1917–1981)

Miltos Sachtouris (1919–2005)

Ektor Kaknavatos (1920–2010)

Nanos Valaoritis (1921-2019)

Aris Alexandrou (1922–1978)

Manolis Anagnostakis (1925–2005)

Nikos Karouzos (1926–1990)

Nikos Fokas (1927-2021)

Titos Patrikios (b. 1928)

Dinos Christianopoulos (b. 1931 –2020)

Kiki Dimoula (b. 1931 –2020)

Tassos Denegris (1934–2009)

Stefanos Tassopoulos (1939–2013)

Katerina Gogou (1940–1993)

Kyriakos Charalambides (b. 1940)

Yannis Kondos (b. 1943)

Lefteris Poulios (b. 1944)

Christoforos Liontakis (b. 1945)

Vassilis Steriadis (b. 1947)

Dimitris Varos (b.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “List of modern Greek poets” is wikimedia list article. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through List, modern and Greek, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1792, 1869, 1798, 1857—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, modern and Greek is the immediate research focus.
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