Abstract
translated by Mina Karavanta, Prof of English Literature at Athens University 1. If a man in his forties is still drawing seas and dovecotes, if in his thought is reflected a sun more transparent, more lucid than the sun of reality, if the word “Amorgos” is not just the mask of a fleeting, adolescent memory, then between the poem of desire and the poem of necessity real loss is throbbing. 2. Prologues have been consumed. They cannot always substitute the topic. He must decide whether he can hold on to this absolute idea even if he has ceased to believe in its power. 3. Successive metamorphoses of paradise. The eye tries to interpret the enigma of beauty while Delos is slowly emerging in the horizon. Summer feels like an eternity. The poem begins to invent itself the moment he turns his face to the light. (The moment the imagination, freed from the sensation of the blazing white,
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