Research Catalog

Title

Collected poems / C.P. Cavafy ; translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard ; edited by George Savidis.

Author

Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1992], ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Keeley, Edmund.
• Sherrard, Philip.
• Savvidēs, Geōrgios P.

Description

xvi, 284 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• Princeton modern Greek studies
• The Lockert library of poetry in translation

Uniform Title

• Poems. English
• Lockert library of poetry in translation.
• Princeton modern Greek studies.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933 > Translations into English

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Walls (1896) -- An Old Man (1897) -- The Horses of Achilles (1897) -- Prayer (1898) -- The Funeral of Sarpedon (1898) -- Candles (1899) -- The First Step (1899) -- The Souls of Old Men (1901) -- Che Fece ... Il Gran Rifiuto (1901) -- Interruption (1901) -- The Windows (1903) -- Thermopylae (1903) -- Unfaithfulness (1904) -- Waiting for the Barbarians (1904) -- Voices (1904) -- Longings (1904) -- Trojans (1905) -- King Dimitrios (1906) -- The Retinue of Dionysos (1907) -- Monotony (1908) -- The Footsteps (1909) -- That's the Man (1909) -- The City (1910) -- The Satrapy (1910) -- The Ides of March -- Things Ended -- Sculptor of Tyana -- The God Abandons Antony -- Ionic -- The Glory of the Ptolemies -- Ithaka -- Dangerous Thoughts -- Philhellene -- Herodis Attikos -- Alexandrian Kings -- Come Back -- In Church -- Very Seldom -- As Much as You Can -- For the Shop -- I Went -- Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias -- Tomb of Evrion -- Chandelier -- Long Ago -- But the Wise Perceive Things About to Happen -- Theodotos -- At the Cafe Door -- He Swears -- One Night -- Morning Sea -- Pictured -- Orophernis -- The Battle of Magnesia -- Manuel Komninos -- The Displeasure of Selefkidis -- When They Come Alive -- In the Street -- Before the Statue of Endymion -- In a Town of Osroini -- Passing Through -- For Ammonis, Who Died at 29, in 610 -- One of Their Gods -- In the Evening -- To Sensual Pleasure -- Gray -- Tomb of Iasis -- In the Month of Athyr -- I've Looked So Much.... -- Tomb of Ignatios -- Days of 1903 -- The Window of the Tobacco Shop -- Kaisarion -- Body, Remember.... -- Tomb of Lanis -- Understanding -- Nero's Deadline -- Envoys from Alexandria -- Aristovoulos -- In the Harbor-Town -- Aimilianos Monai, Alexandrian, A.D. 628-655 -- Since Nine O'clock -- Outside the House -- The Next Table -- The Afternoon Sun -- Comes to Rest -- Of the Jews (A.D. 50) -- Imenos -- On Board Ship -- Of Dimitrios Sotir (162-150 B.C.) -- If Actually Dead -- Young Men of Sidon (A.D. 400) -- To Call Up the Shades -- Dareios -- Anna Komnina -- A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses -- Their Beginning -- The Favor of Alexander Valas -- Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Kommagini, A.D. 595 -- Dimaratos -- I've Brought to Art -- From the School of the Renowned Philosopher -- Craftsman of Wine Bowls -- Those Who Fought for the Achaian League -- To Antiochos Epiphanis -- In an Old Book -- In Despair -- Julian Seeing Contempt -- Epitaph of Antiochos, King of Kommagini -- Theatre of Sidon (A.D. 400) -- Julian in Nicomedia -- Before Time Altered Them -- He Had Come There to Read -- In Alexandria, 31 B.C. -- John Kantakuzinos Triumphs -- Temethos, Antiochian, A.D. 400 -- Of Colored Glass -- The Twenty-Fifth Year of His Life -- On an Italian Shore -- In the Boring Village -- Apollonios of Tyana in Rhodes -- Kleitos' Illness -- In a Township of Asia Minor -- Priest at the Serapeion -- In the Tavernas -- A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen -- Sophist Leaving Syria -- Julian and the Antiochians -- Anna Dalassini -- Days of 1896 -- Two Young Men, 23 to 24 Years Old -- Greek from Ancient Times -- Days of 1901 -- You Didn't Understand -- A Young Poet in His Twenty-Fourth Year -- In Sparta -- Picture of a 23-year-old Painted by his Friend of the Same Age, an Amateur -- In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C. -- A Prince from Western Libya -- Kimon, Son of Learchos, 22, Student of Greek Literature (In Kyrini) -- On the March to Sinopi -- Days of 1909, '10, and '11 -- Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340 -- Alexander Jannaios and Alexandra -- Lovely White Flowers -- Come, O King of the Lacedaimonians -- In the Same Space -- The Mirror in the Front Hall -- He Asked About the Quality -- To Have Taken the Trouble -- Following the Recipe of Ancient Greco-Syrian Magicians -- In the Year 200 B.C. -- Days of 1908 -- Julian at the Mysteries (1896) -- King Claudius (1899) -- When the Watchman Saw the Light (1900) -- Growing in Spirit (1903) -- September, 1903 (1904) -- December, 1903 (1904) -- On the Stairs (1904) -- At the Theatre (1904) -- Poseidonians (1906) -- Antony's Ending (1907) -- Hidden Things (1908) -- On Hearing of Love (1911) -- "The Rest I Will Tell to Those Down in Hades" (1913) -- The Photograph (1913) -- Going Back Home from Greece (1914) -- Exiles (1914) -- Theophilos Palaiologos (1914) -- And I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds (1915) -- Half an Hour (1917) -- Simeon (1917) -- The Bandaged Shoulder (1919) -- On the Outskirts of Antioch (1932-33).

ISBN

• 0691069840 (cl : acid-free paper) :
• 0691015376 (pb : acid-free paper) :

LCCN

92001198

OCLC

• 25281900
• ocm25281900

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries