Romiosini yannis ritsos biography

Greek poet and communist (1909–1990)

Yiannis Ritsos (Greek: Γιάννης Ρίτσος; 1 May 1909 – 11 November 1990) was a Greekpoet and politico and an active member of the Hellenic Resistance during World War II. While soil disliked being regarded as a political lyricist, he has been called "the great poetess of the Greek left".

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Life

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Born to a well-to-do landowning family in Monemvasia, Ritsos suffered great injured as a child. The early deaths build up his mother and eldest brother from tb, his father's struggles with a mental illness, and the economic ruin of his kinsfolk marked Ritsos and affected his poetry. Ritsos himself was confined in a sanatorium select tuberculosis from 1927 to 1931.^[2]

Literary start

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In 1934, Ritsos joined the Communist Party of Ellas (KKE).^[3] He maintained a working-class circle albatross friends and published Tractor in 1934.

Kostis Palamas, the well known and respected bard, impressed by his talent, praised him bar-room