Collected Poems

Cavafy, C.P. (Constantine P)

ISBN 10: 0691013209 / ISBN 13: 9780691013206

Edité par Princeton University Press, New York, 1973

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Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. Cavafy was an ethnic Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He wrote 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. Cavafy was instrumental in the revival and recognition of Greek poetry both at home and abroad. His poems are, typically, concise but intimate evocations of real or literary figures and milieu that have played roles in Greek culture.An ex-library copy with title page missing and marks inside front cover, otherwise the text is complete, tight, clean and neat. .261p. notes bibliography. Good>Very Good.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Collected Poems
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press, New York
• Date de parution: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691013209
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691013206
• Reliure: Original Wraps
• Illustrateur: Trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
• Édition: Reprint
• État de l'article: Good>Very Good
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The Greek poet C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived most of his life in Alexandria, where he was content to circulate his work only among a select group of readers; but since his death he has come to be recognised and widely enjoyed as one of the great poets of the century in any language, remarkable for his use of dramatic forms and plain language within elegant formal structures, for his brilliant reanimation of myth and for his subtle treatment of erotic experience. Lawrence Durrell has written of this masterly translation: 'Cavafy has now at last fallen upon translators who can do justice to his wry melodious poems, glinting with insight as if from veins of mica.'