From Lincolnshire to Zakynthos; Two Greek Poets in England: Andreas Kalvos and George Seferis

by JOHN E. REXINE

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Books and poetry lovers in Louth and district must be kicking themselves that they did not know previously that there was a famous poet and scholar buried as dose to their doorsteps at Keddington — but then, neither did anyone else, for no sooner was Andrea Kalvos (or Andrea Joanidis, as his real name was) buried, than he was forgotten by all but his wife and a few immediate friends, all of whom passed to the great beyond several generations ago. Consider, if you will, the trade that the good people of Keddington may have missed. Can you visualize his Greek admirers visiting his grave at Keddington to pay homage to the National poet of Greece? Who knows, but Keddington might have been one of these flourishing places where “Hot Water, Teas and Minerals” are dispensed from wooden huts to thirsty visitors, while the village story tellers, with a stretch of imagination, might have sat comfortably in some Inn, telling imaginative tales of Kalvo’s [sic) life in Louth. Now the body is to be taken away and local people will not be given any opportunity at all to exploit the fame which had been in their midst. Alas, perhaps if the poet had been given honour during his lifetime, in the county [sic) of his adoption, his neighbours might have profited by his fame, but here we have a new story, of how those who denied a man in his lifetime were themselves denied after his death.

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