Research Catalog

Title

The essential Cavafy / selected and with an introduction by Edmund Keeley ; translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard ; notes by George Savidis.

Author

Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933.

Publication

Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Keeley, Edmund.
• Sherrard, Philip.

Description

69 pages : illustrations; 17 cm.

Summary

• Though not published until after his death in 1933, the poetry of C.P. Cavafy has come to be recognized as having a unique and fundamental influence upon modern literature.
• Much of Cavafy's verse explores the history and culture of his Alexandria, often in the context of his own uneasy relationship with its contemporary incarnation. In a sensual, meditative, sometimes playfully didactic style all his own, Cavafy reflects upon the "myth" of Alexandria and the ironies of its entanglement with his own existence and memories.
• In this most recent volume in the Essential Poets Series, editor Edmund Keeley has gathered together the poems for which Cavafy has come to be regarded as one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century. In addition, Keeley has provided readers with an insightful introduction and biography of the poet.

Series Statement

Essential poets ; 22

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections. English. 1995
• Essential poets ; 22.

Alternative Title

Works. 1995

Subject

Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933 > Translations into English

Note

• "The translations [and notes] selected here (with the exception of "The ships") are from the revised edition of C.P. Cavafy : collected poems ... Princeton University Press, 1992"--CIP front matter.

Contents

Introduction / Edmund Keeley -- Poems -- The Horses of Achilles -- Waiting for the Barbarians -- Trojans -- The City -- The Satrapy -- The God Abandons Antony -- Ionic -- Ithaka -- Philhellene -- Alexandrian Kings -- He Swears -- For Ammonis, Who Died at 29, in 610 -- One of Their Gods -- In the Evening -- Kaisarion -- Nero's Deadline -- Since Nine O'Clock -- The Afternoon Sun -- Comes to Rest -- Dareios -- A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses -- From the School of the Renowned Philosopher -- In Despair -- John Kantakuzinos Triumphs -- In a Township of Asia Minor -- In the Tavernas -- Days of 1896 -- In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C. -- A Prince from Western Libya -- Myris: Alexandria, A. D. 340 -- To Have Taken the Trouble -- In the Year 200 B. C. -- Days of 1908 -- Growing in Spirit -- Going Back Home from Greece -- Half an Hour -- The Bandaged Shoulder -- On the Outskirts of Antioch -- The Ships.

ISBN

0880014261

LCCN

95008451

OCLC

• 32276302
• ocm32276302

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries