C. P. Cavafy (Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library): The Canon: 1 - Hardcover

Cavafy, Constantine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674053265 ISBN 13: 9780674053267

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2011

Synopsis

C. P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. He was born, lived, and died in Alexandria (1863–1933), with brief periods spent in England, Constantinople, and Athens. Cavafy set in motion the most powerful modernism in early twentieth-century European poetry, exhibiting simple truths about eroticism, history, and philosophy―an inscrutable triumvirate that informs the Greek language and culture in all their diachrony. The Cavafy Canon plays with the complexities of ironic Socratic thought, suffused with the honesty of unadorned iambic verse.

Based on a fifty-year continuous scholarly and literary interaction with Cavafy’s poetry and its Greek and western European intertexts, John Chioles has produced an authoritative and exceptionally nuanced translation of the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy’s Canon into English.

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About the Author

Constantine Cavafi was a major Greek poet who worked as a journalist and civil servant during his lifetime. John Chioles is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674053265
• ISBN 13: 9780674053267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 420