The Selected Poems of Cavafy (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Cavafy, C. P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141185619 ISBN 13: 9780141185613

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

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

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Title: Selected Poems of Cavafy <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Cavafy, Constantine P. <>Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP

Review:

aOne of the greatest poets of our time.a
aE. M. Forster
a Ever since I was first introduced to his poetry . . . Cavafy has remained an influence on my writing.a
aW. H. Auden

One of the greatest poets of our time.
E. M. Forster
Ever since I was first introduced to his poetry . . . Cavafy has remained an influence on my writing.
W. H. Auden

?One of the greatest poets of our time.?
?E. M. Forster

? Ever since I was first introduced to his poetry . . . Cavafy has remained an influence on my writing.?
?W. H. Auden

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0141185619
• ISBN 13: 9780141185613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Sharon Avi