Cavafy: Selected Poems - Softcover

Constantine P. Cavafy; Manolis Aligizakis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897430760 ISBN 13: 9781897430767

Publisher: Ekstasis Editions, 2011

Synopsis

Manolis, a Greek poet originally from Crete, has rendered into English the poems of Cavafy with easy grace and lyric intensity, to transcend the natural barrier of translation and to give the poems a home in English. This edition of Cavafy, with the original Greek en face, is of interest to both scholars and to the general reader who might be interested in the form and content of the original.

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About the Author:

Constantine P. Cavafy remains one of the towering figures in poetry of the past 100 years, considered the equal of Yeats or Rilke. Although his output was small (only 200 poems in his 'complete works') he has had an enormous impact on later generations of poets. His reputation was built on two divided currents: his historical poems, reclaiming Grecian antiquity; and his more personal, erotic poems of memory and desire, passion and loss both, however, infused with a tone of irony and disenchantment. Sensuous, erotic, exact Cavafy does not so much tell a story as create an atmosphere, sweeping the reader away on a blue Aegean sea of longing. The endurance of his work is in his approach, embodying both the immediacy of the Hellenic past and the direct moment of an imagined erotic encounter. Cavafy remains balanced between the ancient and the modern, and among the most important Greek poets of the modernist era.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1897430760
• ISBN 13: 9781897430767
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152