Yiannis Ritsos - the poetry of everyday life

Yiannis Ritsos (1909-1990), a Greek poet, essayist and translator, well-known abroad, is regarded as one of the most recognizable poets and most prolific writers of modern Greece. In the present paper, basing on the brief fragments of his poetry coming from different collections I will shed some light on his unique lyric voice and his ability to highlight the indissoluble connection between his native land, its people and Greek tradition from Antiquity to the present. Moreover, I will focus on his impressions on the continuity of Greek tradition that constitute a vivid example of a clearly Greek perspective, hardly known abroad.