Bücher von C. P. Cavafy

This book contains 162 poems: the 154 canonical Collected Poems, presented by year and within each year's order of composition and/or first printing, plus seven of the Uncollected Poems interspersed chronologically among them. Only one of his rejected, early poems has been included, 'Ode and Elegy of the Street,' used here as a kind of overture.

C P Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria. This title captures Cavafy's mixture of formal and idiomatic use of language and preserves the immediacy of his frank treatment of homosexual themes, his brilliant re-creation of history, and his astute political ironies.

Partly an addendum to George Economou's versions of the canonical Cavafy poems, this volume also includes a number of Economou's own uncollected poems and translations, giving us a picture of both poet and translator, as well as a shadowy image of Cavafy himself, in the form of versions of the master's uncompleted poems.

C P Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria. He is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. This bilingual edition offers English translations of Cavafy's poetry.

A new translation of a poet widely considered one of the most important of the twentieth century.