Before time could change them : the complete poems of Constantine P. Cavafy ; translated with an introduction and notes by Theoharis Constantine Theoharis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Theoharis, Theoharis Constantine.

Standardized Title:

Works. English. 2001

Language:

English

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Subjects (All):

Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933--Translations into English.

Cavafy, Constantine.

Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxx, 354 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt, [2001]

Language Note:

Translated from the Greek.

Summary:

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. 6 X 9.

Contents:

Introduction: Let All Its Guarded Passion Shine xxiii

Poems: 1905-1915

The City 3

The Satrapy 4

The Wise Sense Imminent Events 5

The Ides of March 6

Things Run Out 7

The God Forsakes Antony 8

Theodotos 9

Monotony 10

Ithaca 11

As Long as You Can 13

Trojans 14

King Dimitrios 15

The Glory of the Ptolemies 16

Procession of Dionysus 17

The Battle of Magnesia 18

The Displeasure of Selefkides 19

Orophernis 20

Alexandrian Kings 22

Philhellene 24

The Footsteps 25

Herodis Attikos 26

Tyanan Sculptor 27

Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias 28

Tomb of Evrion 29

That's the Man 30

Dangerous Remarks 31

Manuel Komninos 32

In Church 33

Very Seldom 34

For the Shop 35

Painted 36

Morning Sea 37

Ionian 38

At the Entrance to the Cafe 39

One Night 40

Return 41

Far Off 42

He Swears 43

I Went 44

Chandelier 45

Poems: 1916-1918

Since Nine O'Clock

49

Understanding 50

Before the Statue of Endymion 51

Envoys from Alexandria 52

Aristovoulos 53

Kaisarion 55

Nero's Term 56

In the Port 57

One of Their Gods 58

The Tomb of Lanis 59

The Tomb of Iasis 60

In a Town of Osroini 61

The Tomb of Ignatios 62

In the Month of Athyr 63

For Ammonis, Who Died at 29, in 610 64

Aimilianos Monai, Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D. 65

When They Surge, Excited 66

Pleasure in the Flesh 67

I've Gazed So Long, So Much

68

In the Street 69

The Tobacco Shop Window 70

Passing Through 71

In the Evening 72

Gray 73

Before the House 74

The Next Table 75

Remember, Body... 76

Days of 1903 77

Poems: 1897-1908 excluded from POEMS: 1905-1915 and Poems: 1916-1918

Voices 81

Desires 82

Candles 83

An Old Man 84

Prayer 85

The Old Men's Souls 86

The First Step 87

Interruption 88

Thermopylae 89

Che Fece ... Il Gran Rifiuto 90

The Windows 91

Waiting for the Barbarians 92

Unfaithfulness 94

The Horses of Achilles 96

Walls 97

The Funeral of Sarpedon 98

Unpublished Poems: 1919-1932

1919

The Afternoon Sun 103

To Abide 104

Of the Jews (50 A.D.) 105

Imenos 106

From the Ship 107

Of Dimitrios Sotir (162-150 B.C.) 108

1920

If Actually Dead 110

Young Men of Sidon (400 A.D.) 112

That They Might Appear

113

Dareios 114

Anna Komnina 116

1921

A Byzantine Gentleman, in Exile, Composing Verses 117

Their Origin 118

The Favor of Alexander Valas 119

Melancholy of Jason Kleander; Poet in Kommagini; 595 A.D. 120

Dimaratos 121

I've Brought to Art 123

From the School of the Renowned Philosopher 124

Craftsman of Winebowls 126

1922

Those Who Fought for the Achaian Alliance 127

Before Antiochus Epiphanis 128

In an Old Book

129

1923

Desperation 130

Julian, Seeing Contempt 131

Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Kommagini 132

Theater of Sidon (400 A.D.) 133

1924

Julian in Nicomedia 134

Before Time Could Change Them 135

He Came to Read

136

31 B.C. in Alexandria 137

John Kantakuzinos Triumphs 138

1925

Temethos, Antiochian; 400 A.D. 139

Of Colored Glass 140

The 25th Year of His Life 141

On an Italian Shore 142

In the Dull and Gloomy Village 143

Apollonios of Tyana in Rhodes 144

1926

The Illness of Kleitos 145

In a Township of Asia Minor 146

Priest at the Serapeion 147

In the Wineshops

148

A Grand Procession of Priests and Laymen 149

Sophist Departing from Syria 150

Julian and the Antiochians 151

1927

Anna Dalassini 152

Days of 1896 153

Two Young Men, 23 to 24 Years Old 154

Greek from Ancient Times 156

Days of 1901 157

1928

You Didn't Understand 158

A Young Man, a Writer

in His 24th Year 159

In Sparta 160

Picture of a Young Man, Twenty-three, Done by His Friend of the Same Age, an Amateur 161

In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C. 162

A Prince from Western Libya 164

Kimon, Son of Learchos, Age 22, Student of Greek Literature (in Kyrini) 165

On the March to Sinopi 166

Days of 1909, '10, and '11 167

1929

Myris: Alexandria, 340 A.D. 168

Alexandros Iannaios, and Alexandra 171

Flowers White and Beautiful, as Were Most Becoming 172

Come, O King of the Lacedaimonians 173

In the Same Space 174

1930

The Mirror in the Vestibule 175

He Asked about the Quality

176

They Might Have Bothered 178

1931

Following the Formulas of Ancient Greco-Syrian Magicians 180

In the Year 200 B.C. 181

1932

Days of 1908 183

One Extra: 1933

1933

In the Districts Surrounding Antioch 187

Hidden Poems: 1884-1923

1884

Beizades to His Beloved 191

Dunya Guzeli 192

1885

When, My Friends, I Was in Love 193

Nichori 195

1886

Epic in the Heart 196

Stephanos Skilitsis 197

1891

Correspondence According to Baudelaire 198

1892

[Fragments of an untitled poem] 200

"Nous n'osons plus chanter les roses" 201

Indian Image 202

Pelasgian Image 203

The Hereafter 205

The Mimiambi of Herodas 206

Blue Eyes 208

1893

The Four Walls of My Room 209

Alexandrian Merchant 210

The Hospitality of Lagides 211

In the Cemetery 212

Priam's Speeding Forth at Night 213

Epitaph 215

A Displeased Viewer 216

To Jerusalem 217

1894

A Second Odyssey 219

One Who Has Failed 221

The Pawn 222

Terror 223

In the House of the Soul 224

Rain 225

1895

La Feunesse blanche 227

Distinguishing Marks 228

Eternity 229

1896

Confusion 230

Salome 231

Chaldaic Image 232

Julian at the Mysteries 233

1897

The Cat 234

The Bank of the Future 235

What Cannot Be 236

Addition 237

Bouquets 238

1898

Lohengrin 239

Suspicion 240

1899

Death of a General 241

The Intervention of the Gods 242

King Claudius 243

The Naval Battle 246

1900

When the Watchman Saw the Light 247

The Enemies 248

1903

Artificial Flowers 249

Becoming Stronger 250

1904

September 1903 251

December 1903 252

January 1904 253

On the Stairs 254

At the Theater 255

1906

Poseidonians 256

1907

The End of Antony 257

1908

27 June 1906, 2 P.M. 258

Hidden Things 259

1911

On Hearing of Love 260

1913

"The Rest I Will Tell to Those Below in Hades" 261

So 262

1914

Return from Greece 263

Exiles 264

Theophilos Palaiologos 265

1915

And I Reclined and Lay on their Beds 266

1917

Half an Hour 267

House with a Garden 268

A Great Feast at the Home of Sosibios 269

Simeon 270

The Bandaged Shoulder 271

Coins 272

Taken 273

From the Drawer 274

Prose Poems from Hidden Poems

1894-1897

The Regiment of Pleasure 275

1895-1896

The Ships 276

Garments 279

Rejected Poems: 1886-1898

Bacchic 283

The Poet and the Muse 284

Builders 286

Word and Silence 287

Sam el Nesim 288

Singer 290

Vulnerant Omnes, Ultima Necat 291

Good and Bad Weather 292

Timolaos the Syracusan 293

Athena's Vote 295

The Inkwell 297

Sweet Voices 298

Elegy of the Flowers 299

Melancholy Hours 300

Oedipus 301

Ode and Elegy of the Roads 302

By an Open Window 303

A Love 304

Memory 307

The Death of the Emperor Tacitus 308

The Footsteps of the Eumenides 309

The Tears of the Sisters of Phaeton 310

Ancient Tragedy 312

Horace in Athens 314

The Tarantians Divert Themselves 315

The Funeral of Sarpedon 316

Voice from the Sea 318.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0151005192

OCLC:

45136634