Moonlight Sonata

Name: Moonlight Sonata
Author: Yannis Ritsos

About the author

Greek poet whose Epitaphios, written in response to a massacre of strikers in Thessaloniki, is one of the great political poems of the century. He spent years in detention during the Greek civil war and dictatorship.

More by Yannis Ritsos

EpitaphiosLyric poem mourning and commemorating the dead and loss of innocence
PhiloctetesModern dramatic poem based on ancient Greek myth and human suffering
RomiosiniPoetry celebrating Greek national identity and cultural resilience
Collected PoemsSelected poems from prolific twentieth century Greek poet