Author: Capetanakis, Demetrios (Capetanakas) (1912-1944)
Title: Emily Dickinson . First Edition of the Published Broadside
Description: Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1945. Letterpress. 31 x 40.5cm. As published in Portfolio One , edited by Caresse Crosby.. Dimitrios Kapetanakis was born in Smyrna in 1912. After the Asia Minor Disaster in 1922, his family found themselves in Athens. Kapetanakis studied Political Science and Economics at the University of Athens and continued his postgraduate studies at the University of Heidelberg. From there he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1934. During his studies in Germany he wrote several philosophical essays in the Greek language. Examples include Eros and Time, The Mythology of Beauty, From the Struggle of the Mentally Alone.. In 1939 he was in England, having received a three-year scholarship from the British Council. At Cambridge University he found himself working under the supervision of George Humphrey Wolferstan (Dadie) Rylands, one of Britain's best-known Shakespeare scholars. Then Kapetanakis worked for a short time in the Press Department of the Greek Embassy in London... During his stay in England he mainly wrote critical literary essays on the works of Proust, Rimbaud, Stephan George, Dostoevsky, Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole and Charlotte Brontė. He was also planning to write a philosophical work on the work of Plato and Kierkegaard. He met important figures in English literature such as Edith Sitwell and William Plomer, as well as the poet, editor and publisher John Lehmann. John Lehmann donated to the Archives of the Gennadei Library the personal documents, notes and correspondence of Kapetanakis that came into his possession after the poet's death in 1944. He fell seriously ill in 1942 and breathed his last at Westminster Hospital in London. He was buried in West Norwood Cemetery. His entire work in English was published in 1947 under the title Demetrios Capetanakis: A Greek Poet in England (edited by John Lehmann). .
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Title: Emily Dickinson . First Edition of the Published Broadside
Description: Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1945. Letterpress. 31 x 40.5cm. As published in Portfolio One , edited by Caresse Crosby.. Dimitrios Kapetanakis was born in Smyrna in 1912. After the Asia Minor Disaster in 1922, his family found themselves in Athens. Kapetanakis studied Political Science and Economics at the University of Athens and continued his postgraduate studies at the University of Heidelberg. From there he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1934. During his studies in Germany he wrote several philosophical essays in the Greek language. Examples include Eros and Time, The Mythology of Beauty, From the Struggle of the Mentally Alone.. In 1939 he was in England, having received a three-year scholarship from the British Council. At Cambridge University he found himself working under the supervision of George Humphrey Wolferstan (Dadie) Rylands, one of Britain's best-known Shakespeare scholars. Then Kapetanakis worked for a short time in the Press Department of the Greek Embassy in London... During his stay in England he mainly wrote critical literary essays on the works of Proust, Rimbaud, Stephan George, Dostoevsky, Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole and Charlotte Brontė. He was also planning to write a philosophical work on the work of Plato and Kierkegaard. He met important figures in English literature such as Edith Sitwell and William Plomer, as well as the poet, editor and publisher John Lehmann. John Lehmann donated to the Archives of the Gennadei Library the personal documents, notes and correspondence of Kapetanakis that came into his possession after the poet's death in 1944. He fell seriously ill in 1942 and breathed his last at Westminster Hospital in London. He was buried in West Norwood Cemetery. His entire work in English was published in 1947 under the title Demetrios Capetanakis: A Greek Poet in England (edited by John Lehmann). .
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Price: US$ 125.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 16-5855
- Book number: 16-5855
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