Vasilis Michaelides (1850-1917) Cypriot Poets, Commemorative Issue, Republic of Cyprus

Vasilis Michaelides (1850-1917) Cypriot Poets, Commemorative Issue, Republic of Cyprus

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Vasilis Michaelides (1850-1917) Greek Cypriot poet was born at Lefkonico and lived a difficult life full of privations. As an adolescent and a young man alongside a char ming father and a man of God, he moved to Dhali, Larnaca and Limassol where he settled down as a kind of nursephar macist-super visor at the hospital. He was a charismatic but almost illiterate man, yet in him existed a true expression of the long suffer ing and unfulfilled national identity. He wrote patr iotic poems covering major national events and his best pieces of poetry are: The 9th July of 1821, Cyprus in the Mother land and The Fairy. He died in obscurity and poverty though he had written some of the best verses in the history of Greek poetry in Cyprus. Decades after his death, he and Demetrios Lipertis (1866-1937) remind us which are our true poetic roots and which are the true directions of our ethnic and spiritual orientations

Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus

Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία

Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus

Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Digital Heritage Research Lab of Cyprus University of Technology

6th March 1978

Designer: Andreas Antis Ioannides

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