Ἡ Τρίχα
Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1830
Ο εθνικός ποιητής γράφει σάτιρα: ένας ζυγιαστής ζυγίζει ανθρώπους, πουλιά και πολιτικούς, κι ένα ποίημα βγαίνει από ένα όνειρο και μια τρίχα.
Διονύσιος Σολωμός
1798–1857
Solomos wrote as a poet of the Greek revolution and as a satirist, and the same restlessness runs through both: language pushed until it carries grief, mockery and hope at once. Start with «Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ελευθερίαν», the hymn you may know only as an anthem and which is darker and more argumentative than that, or with «Οι Ελεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι, σχεδίασμα Β΄», where the siege of Missolonghi is held against spring, hunger and the will to stay free.
Feels like freedom, awe and longing.
Start with Ἡ Τρίχα.
Ο Σολωμός πέρασε τα τελευταία είκοσι χρόνια της ζωής του ξαναδουλεύοντας τα ίδια σπαράγματα· το «Η Τρίχα» έμεινε ανολοκλήρωτο και εκδόθηκε από τα χαρτιά του.
You wake up sure it was only a dream. Then you open your hands.
ΙΣτὴ ζέστη ὁ φλάρης τοῦ χοροῦ μία ματιὰ μοῦ ρίχνεικι’ ἔπειτα εἰς τὸ πάτωμα κάτι τάχα μοῦ δείχνεικι’ ἐγὼ ποὺ λέω πὼς μὲ καλεῖ στὸ ζύγιασμα μὲ βάλῃμέσα ἡ ψυχή μου ἐθύμωσε, σέρνω φωνὴ μεγάληκαὶ βρίσκομ’ ἔξυπνος γυμνός, ἔξω ἀπὸ τὸ κλινάρικαὶ μὲ τὰ χέρια ποὺ ἔτρεμαν στὸ λάρυγγα τοῦ φλάρη.Ἀκίνητος, ἀμίλητος, στὸν τόπο του στημένοςδὲν εἶν’ τὰ ζύγη πλέον ἐκεῖ, δὲν εἶν’ ὁ ζυγιασμένος.Ἔμεινα, ἐστέναξα βαριά, τὸ πᾶν ἐσιωποῦσε·μέσ’ στὴν αὐλή μου ὁ κόκορας βραχνόφωνα λαλοῦσε.χτυπῶ τὸ μέτωπο, ἐδῶ μοῦ ’πρεπε μὲ τσ’ ἀμάδεςξανοίγω κάτου τὰ μαλλιά! τὲς τρίχες τὲς γραφάδες. Books by Διονύσιος Σολωμός
Σατιρικά
Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1859
In these fragmentary poems, lost characters search their own memories, unsure which words are theirs and which belong to the dead.
Εἰς τὸν θάνατον τοῦ Λόρδου Μπάιρον
Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1825
Solomos turns Byron's death into a lament for Greece: the poet as freedom's herald, sung in the ragged, luxurious Greek that literature forgot.
1823-1833
Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1859
The poems Solomos wrote while inventing a Greek poetry that could carry a nation — fragments of longing, grief and resurrection, some never finished.
Η Γυναίκα της Ζάκυθος
Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1859
A fierce, strange prose satire that turns Zakynthian society into a stage for hypocrisy, war, and moral judgment.
Οι Ελεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι, σχεδίασμα Β΄
Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1859
At the siege of Missolonghi, hunger and danger contend with spring’s beauty, remembered love and the will to remain free.
Μικρά έργα
Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1859
Songs, fragments and unfinished poems in which private grief, natural beauty and the struggle for freedom meet in startling images.
Διονυσίου Σολωμού
Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1859
The good poet of modern Greece whose greatest works survive as fragments. Read what he finished, what he abandoned, and what his friends remembered.
Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ελευθερίαν
Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1825
The poem that gave modern Greece its national anthem, written while the war was still burning — and it is stranger, darker and more argumentative than the anthem suggests.
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