Essential Cavafy (The Essential Poets Series)

Cavafy; Keeley, Edmund

ISBN 10: 0880015160 / ISBN 13: 9780880015165

Edité par Ecco, 1996

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Pocket sized paperback no edition stated presumed first, NO age toning, tight clean unmarked, no creases no slant, selected with an intro by Edmund Keeley, translations by Keeley and Philip Sherrard, notes by George Savidis, Very Good Plus or Near Fine, 69 pages, late great Greek poet.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Essential Cavafy (The Essential Poets Series)
• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0880015160
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780880015165
• Reliure: paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: As New
• Poids: 2 onces
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Cavafy's mythical world presents us with an image of the good life--the life of exquisite sensuality, refined tastes, and mixed faiths--that more often than not carries within it the ripening prospect of its own death; yet in his work there appears to be no other life more worthy of celebration.... As ironist and realist, his vision is readily translatable into the language of contemporary experience; and the commitment to hedonism, to political skepticism, and to honest self-awareness... anticipates the prevailing aura of our times.

À propos de l?auteur

Edmund Keeley was born in Damascus, Syria, of American parents and lived in Canada and Greece before his family settled in Washington, D.C. He studied at Princeton and Oxford, and taught Creative Writing and Hellenic Studies at Princeton until his retirement in 1994 as Straut Professor of English Emeritus. He is the author of fifteen volumes of poetry in translation, five volumes of non-fiction, and six novels, most recently School for Pagan Lovers. His fiction won the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and selection by the PEN/NEA Fiction Syndicate. His translations received the Harold Morton Landon Award of the Academy of American Poets and the European Community's First European Prize for the Translation of Poetry. He has served as President of PEN American Center and twice as President of the Modern Greek Studies Association, of which he was a founding member. With his wife, Mary, he lives part of the year in Princeton and part in Athens, Greece.