Aléxandros Soútsos

Greek poet
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Born:
1803, Constantinople
Died:
1863 (aged 60)
Movement / Style:
Romanticism

Aléxandros Soútsos (born 1803, Constantinople—died 1863) was a Greek poet who founded the Greek Romantic school of poetry. Soútsos studied in Chios (Khíos) and later in Paris, where he was influenced by the French Romantics and by liberal political opinion. His verse satires are his liveliest writings and inspired the early development of modern political liberalism in Greece. His dramas and one long prose work, the Exóristos (“The Exile”), were considered cold and artificial, but his numerous lyrics were admired by his contemporaries. Lord Byron’s Childe Harold was the model for his longest poem, Periplanoménos (“The Wanderer”). His collected works ...(100 of 100 words)