Collected Poems

Cavafy, C.P. (Constantine P)

ISBN 10: 0691013209 / ISBN 13: 9780691013206

Published by Princeton University Press, New York, 1973

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Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. Cavafy was an ethnic Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He wrote 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. Cavafy was instrumental in the revival and recognition of Greek poetry both at home and abroad. His poems are, typically, concise but intimate evocations of real or literary figures and milieu that have played roles in Greek culture.An ex-library copy with title page missing and marks inside front cover, otherwise the text is complete, tight, clean and neat. .261p. notes bibliography. Good>Very Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Poems
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691013209
• ISBN 13: 9780691013206
• Binding: Original Wraps
• Illustrator: Trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Good>Very Good
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The description for this book, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, will be forthcoming.

About the Author

Constantine P. Cavafy was born on 29 April 1863 in Alexandria, Egypt, to Greek parents. He lived in Liverpool and Constantinople as well as Alexandria. He worked as a journalist and as a civil servant, publishing his early poetry in broadsheet form to show to his close friends. His style was very different to most contemporary Greek poetry and his poems were largely unappreciated until the 1920s and his reputation really grew posthumously. He died on 29 April 1933, his 70th birthday.