ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the creation of the journal Prosperos, its content and its contribution. The planning and production of Prosperos, and indeed the magazine's broad orientation, derived from Michail Desyllas. The discontinuation of Prosperos was prompted by the resignation of the Director of the British Council Corfu branch, who withdrew after a period of mental strain and a crisis of conscience. Despite the intellectual breadth of its contributors and the support of the British Council, Prosperos was in essence very much a junior partner to the Anglo-Greek Review and broadly followed its cultural line. Porphyras has sought to follow Prosperos in a gradual liberation from narrow regionalism, a creative respect for local tradition and an openness to foreign literature. Prosperos reflects a deep commitment to artistic quality and free expression in the arts and letters on the part of a region of Greece by then marginal to literary production but with indisputable past achievements.
