C.P. Cavafy : selected poems / translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

Cavafy, C. P. Keeley, Edmund. Sherrard, Philip

ISBN 10: 0691062285 / ISBN 13: 9780691062280

Edité par Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1973

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Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled, water-stained and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 97 pages. Subjects; Cavafy, Constantine 1863-1933 ; Translations into English. Cavafy, Constantine 1863-1933. LITERARY CRITICISM Poetry. Greek poetry. Contemporary Greek poetry. 1 Kg.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: C.P. Cavafy : selected poems / translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
• Éditeur: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press
• Date de parution: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691062285
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691062280
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: 2nd edition.
• Poids: 1 kilogramme

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Synopsis

C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is now considered by many to be the most original and influential Greek poet of this century. The qualities of his poetry that were unfashionable during his lifetime are the very ones that make his work endure: his sparing use of metaphor; his evocation of spoken rhythms and colloquialisms; his use of epigrammatic and dramatic modes; his aesthetic perfectionism; his frank treatment of homosexual themes; his brilliantly alive sense of history; and his commitment to Hellenism, coupled with an astute cynicism about politics.

The translations in Selected Poems are completely new. Realizing that Cavafy's language is closer to the spoken idiom than that of other leading Greek poets of his time, and that earlier translations have failed to capture the immediate, colloquial qualities of Cavafy's voice, Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard have rendered his most significant and characteristic poems in a style and rhythm as natural and apt in English as the poet's is in Greek.

Originally published in 1972.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria's ancient past. Figures from antiquity speak with telling interruptions from the author in such poems as 'Anna Comnena' and 'You did not understand', while precise moments of history are seen with a sense of foreboding, as in 'Ides of March', 'The God Abandoning Antony' and 'Nero's Deadline'. And in poems that draw on his own life and surroundings, Cavafy recalls illicit trysts or glimpses of beautiful young men in 'One Night', 'I have gazed so much' and 'The Café Entrance', and creates exquisite miniatures of everyday life in 'An Old Man' and 'Of the Shop'.Winner of the prestigious Harold Morton Landon Translation Award 2009