The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy

Cavafy, Constantine

ISBN 10: 0701200278 / ISBN 13: 9780701200275

Published by Penguin Random House, 1968

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy
• Publisher: Penguin Random House
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701200278
• ISBN 13: 9780701200275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Since his death almost seventy years ago, C. P. Cavafy has come to be recognized as one of the greatest poets of modern times. Elegiac, deeply sensual, and able to plumb the heart with language of immense richness, Cavafy evokes the great lost classical world of the Mediterranean with unparalleled beauty. Much of his poetry deals with love, specifically homosexual love. It speaks of human passions, the experience common to all mankind of love offered, sought, and lost. His verse is beautiful and embracing, and remains as alive and sensuous as it was when he wrote it.

Theoharis Constantine Theoharis offers a new translation, one that presents Cavafy's work in the thematic order Cavafy wanted it published and emphasizes the tenderness and intensity of the love poems. Gore Vidal's foreword offers an explication of Cavafy's world, a valuable map for readers of what will be embraced as a signal volume of world poetry.

Language Notes

Text: English, Greek (translation)