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The Cypriot Canzoniere (Song-book) οr the Cypriot Rime d'Amore (Love Rhymes; Greek: Ρίμες Αγάπης) is a collection of 16th century poems in the Cypriot dialect influenced by the Italian Renaissance poetry and especially Petrarchism.
The "Hymn to Liberty", [a] also known as the "Hymn to Freedom", [b] is a Greek poem written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 and set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros in 1828. It officially became the national anthem of Greece in 1864 and Cyprus in 1966. Consisting of 158 stanzas in total, is the longest national anthem in the world by length of text. [3]
Kyriakos Charalambides (Greek: Κυριάκος Χαραλαμπίδης, Kyriacos Charalambides) is one of the most renowned and celebrated living Cypriot poets.His poetry, essays, translations, and critical analysis celebrate the ideas of Western civilisation, expressed through the language and history of Greek culture.
There he began to write for the local newspaper Alithia (Greek: Αλήθεια; Truth). Michaelides wrote several poems in Greek dialects such as Cypriot, Dhimotiki, and Katharevousa. His first poetry collection, The Weak Lyre (Greek: Η Ασθενής Λύρα), was published in 1882. In 1884, he was appointed to work as a nurse, which secured ...
Neşe Yaşın is a well known Cypriot Turkish poet and author, who mainly writes in Turkish although a considerable number of her works of prose have been translated into Greek and English. In 2002 her novel Secret History of Sad Girls was banned in the TRNC and Turkey and she received multiple threats from Turkish nationalists.
The Cypria, in the written form in which it was known in classical Greece, was probably composed in the late seventh century BCE, [3] but there is much uncertainty. The Cyclic Poets, as the translator of Homerica Hugh G. Evelyn-White noted, [4] "were careful not to trespass upon ground already occupied by Homer," one of the reasons for dating the final, literary form of Cypria as post-Homeric ...
Stasinus (Ancient Greek: Στασῖνος, romanized: Stasînos) of Cyprus was a semi-legendary early Greek poet.He is best known for his lost work Cypria, which was one of the poems belonging to the Epic Cycle that narrated the War of Troy.
Poetry portal; Pages in category "Greek Cypriot poets" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.