BEFORE TIME COULD CHANGE THEM The Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy

Constantine P. Cavafy

ISBN 10: 0151005192 / ISBN 13: 9780151005192

Edité par Harcourt, New York, 2001

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Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 384 pages.

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• Titre: BEFORE TIME COULD CHANGE THEM The Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy
• Éditeur: Harcourt, New York
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0151005192
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780151005192
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Easton Press

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Since his death almost seventy years ago, C. P. Cavafy has come to be recognized as one of the greatest poets of modern times. Elegiac, deeply sensual, and able to plumb the heart with language of immense richness, Cavafy evokes the great lost classical world of the Mediterranean with unparalleled beauty. Much of his poetry deals with love, specifically homosexual love. It speaks of human passions, the experience common to all mankind of love offered, sought, and lost. His verse is beautiful and embracing, and remains as alive and sensuous as it was when he wrote it.

Theoharis Constantine Theoharis offers a new translation, one that presents Cavafy's work in the thematic order Cavafy wanted it published and emphasizes the tenderness and intensity of the love poems. Gore Vidal's foreword offers an explication of Cavafy's world, a valuable map for readers of what will be embraced as a signal volume of world poetry.