Kálvos, Andréas Ioannídis

Kálvos, Andréas Ioannídis

▪ Greek poet
born April 1792, Zacynthus, Venetian Republic [now Zákinthos, Greece]
died Nov. 3, 1869, London

      Greek poet who brought an Italian Neoclassical influence to the Ionian school of poets (the school of Romantics from the seven Ionian islands).

      Kálvos was brought up at Leghorn, Tuscany (1802–12), and lived most of his life in Italy and England. While in Italy he became secretary (1812–17) to the Italian poet and patriot Ugo Foscolo (Foscolo, Ugo), a fellow native of Zacynthus, who exercised great influence on his writings. In fact, Kálvos' first works, including two tragedies, were written in Italian. In 1826 he went to Corfu, where he founded his own private school. He spent his last years in England.

      Kálvos published 20 patriotic odes in two fascicles: Líra (“The Lyre”) at Geneva in 1824 and Néas Odás (“New Odes”) at Paris in 1826. He wrote of an idealized Greece, a Greece of the old virtues but a Greece viewed from outside. Although he sometimes used Demotic Greek (the vernacular tongue), he was generally a purist given to an austere and moralizing poetry and to various archaisms. The Italian Neoclassical influence was evident mainly in poetic paraphrases, extending metaphors, and artificial language and metres. Although admired by some, Kálvos was not a strong force in subsequent Greek literature.

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