Maria Polydouri

Maria Polydouri (Greek: Μαρία Πολυδούρη) (1902–1930) was a Greek poet.

Polydouri was born in Kalamata. She was a contemporary of Kostas Karyotakis, with whom she had a desperate but incomplete love affair. Although she wrote poetry from at an early age, her most important poems were written during the last four years of her life, when, suffering from consumption, she was secluded in an Athens sanatorium.

Unintentionally she became a literary legend in early 20th century Athens, and a link between the pre-war poetry of Karyotakis and the post-war poetry of Yiannis Ritsos and Angelos Sikelianos.

Polydouri died in Athens in 1930.

Works
Collections:
 * The trilles that faint (1928)
 * Echo over chaos (1929)