From the fertile depths of the famous Generation of the '30s, two poetic lions emerged, Odysseas Elytis and Giannis Ritsos, to elevate and expand the poetic experience of the Greeks with idealistic clarity and breathtaking imagery.
Obediently following their rich lyrical temperament - Apollo-like in Elytis, Dionysian in Ritsos - and surrendering to their powerful charisma, they offered precious gifts to modern Greek poetry that are heavy and immortal in the relativity of human existence.
This enviable immortality of their embodied and experienced poetic language, this magnification of their creative fertility, this admirable clarity of their Greek consciousness is honored - comparatively and paradoxically - with the fortieth "Notebook" of "Responsibility". To reaffirm that among the towering poets nurtured in the sacred depths, the new Greece stands proudly alongside these two lions, balanced, equal, and esteemed.