Collected Poems
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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One of the most singular voices in modern Greek literature, C. P. Cavafy wrote poetry that cuts across centuries, collapsing the distance between the ancient Hellenistic world and the melancholy undercurrents of modern Alexandria. Collected Poems, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard and edited by George Savidis, presents the full canon of Cavafy's recognised work — a body of verse distinguished by its ironic restraint, its sensuous honesty, and its profound meditation on history, desire, and the passage of time. From the legendary fall of cities in Waiting for the Barbarians to the quietly devastating intimacies of his erotic verse, each poem is a perfectly compressed world unto itself. Cavafy's style — spare, conversational, and yet charged with an almost mythic gravity — stands apart from his European contemporaries and anticipates much of the confessional and historical poetry that would follow in the twentieth century. This definitive English-language edition, long regarded as the authoritative translation, captures the poet's distinctive irony and his gift for transforming historical anecdote into universal human truth. For readers who have never encountered Cavafy, and for those who return to him again and again, this collection poses the same haunting question: what do we owe to the cities, the loves, and the moments we have already lost?
Author: C. P. Cavafy
Format: Paperback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most singular voices in modern Greek literature, C. P. Cavafy wrote poetry that cuts across centuries, collapsing the distance between the ancient Hellenistic world and the melancholy undercurrents of modern Alexandria. Collected Poems, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard and edited by George Savidis, presents the full canon of Cavafy's recognised work — a body of verse distinguished by its ironic restraint, its sensuous honesty, and its profound meditation on history, desire, and the passage of time. From the legendary fall of cities in Waiting for the Barbarians to the quietly devastating intimacies of his erotic verse, each poem is a perfectly compressed world unto itself. Cavafy's style — spare, conversational, and yet charged with an almost mythic gravity — stands apart from his European contemporaries and anticipates much of the confessional and historical poetry that would follow in the twentieth century. This definitive English-language edition, long regarded as the authoritative translation, captures the poet's distinctive irony and his gift for transforming historical anecdote into universal human truth. For readers who have never encountered Cavafy, and for those who return to him again and again, this collection poses the same haunting question: what do we owe to the cities, the loves, and the moments we have already lost?