Kostas
Karyotakis is a Greek poet influenced by the 19th-century French Symbolist
poets. He born in Tripolis at 1896 and died in Preveza at 1928.
Kariotakis
spent most of his lonely childhood in Crete. He read law at Athens
and won a prize for poetry in 1920. After obtaining his degree he
worked as a government clerk in Athens, where he developed a friendship
with the young poet Maria Polidouri. Later he was transferred to
Patrai and thence to Preveza, where he shot himself (July 20, 1928).
 Karyotakis'
two volumes of poetry show the influence of the New School of Poetry
of Athens, founded in about 1880 by Kostis Palamas, which revolted
against Katharevusa, the stilted and archaic official language of
Greece, and against the emotionalism of the Romantics. His poetry
also reveals the Symbolist influence in addition to the loneliness
and despair of his childhood.
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