C.P. CAVAFY : COLLECTED POEMS, 1896 - 1932

C. P. Cavafy; (Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard, Translators); (George Savidis, Editor)

ISBN 10: 0691013209 / ISBN 13: 9780691013206

Edité par Princeton Univ Press, Princeton, NJ, 1975

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Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/Good; sound w/edge wear & creasing to corner. Anthology of poems, published and unpublished from Egyptian Greek poet, journalist and civil servant Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933), translated w/biographical notes. A voice of culture iin dedcline --- hence ours as well. Posthumous publication 2 years after poet's 40th birthday; this is the English rendition published w/o ISBN. 262 pgs w/poems in chronological order. Poems include "An Old Man", 1894: "At the noisy end of the cafe, head bent/ Over the table, an old man sits alone/ A newspaper in front of him/./ But so much thinking, so much remembering./ Makes the old man dizzy. He falls asleep/ His head resting on the cafe table"; "As Much As You Can", "Even if you can't shape your life the way you want/ . Do not degrade it by draggin it along/ To the daily silliness/ of social relations & parties/ Until it comes to seem a boring hang-over"; and, but not least, "Waiting of the Barbarians" (1898): "--- The barbarians are due here today/ ---". Fine copy with tired softcover.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: C.P. CAVAFY : COLLECTED POEMS, 1896 - 1932
• Éditeur: Princeton Univ Press, Princeton, NJ
• Date de parution: 1975
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691013209
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691013206
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: First Edition, First Thus
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: None as Issued
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Anthology
  • Poetry/Verse
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

The description for this book, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, will be forthcoming.

Quatrième de couverture

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.'