Cavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the poems are openly homosexual. Sixty-three newly translated poems have been added to the widely praised edition which includes the classic poem "Ithaca." Introduction by W. H. Auden. Translated by Rae Dalven.
Cavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the p...
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. Here is an extensively revised edition of the acclaimed translations of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, which capture Cavafy's mixture of formal and idiomatic use of language and preserve the immediacy of his frank treatment of homosexual themes, his brilliant...
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. N...
Today, Cavafy is recognized as a major figure in modern European poetry. Originally issued in 1998, the present volume was the first translation of his poetry to be made by an Irish poet.
Today, Cavafy is recognized as a major figure in modern European poetry. Originally issued in 1998, the present volume was the first translation of hi...
This volume plays with the complexities of ironic Socratic thought, suffused with the honesty of unadorned iambic verse. Based on a 50-year continuous scholarly and literary interaction with Cavafy's poetry and its Greek and western intertexts, John Chioles has produced an authoritative and exceptionally nuanced translation.
This volume plays with the complexities of ironic Socratic thought, suffused with the honesty of unadorned iambic verse. Based on a 50-year continuous...
An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy including the first English translation of the poet s final Unfinished Poems now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English, by the renowned critic, scholar, and international best-selling author of The Lost. No modern poet so vividly brought to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early-twentieth-century taboos surrounding...
An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy including the first Englis...
