Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy / C. P. Cavafy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavafy, C. P., author.

Contributor:

Keeley, Edmund.

Sherrard, Philip.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library ; 1735

Standardized Title:

Poems. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933.

Greek poetry, Modern--Translations into English.

Greek poetry, Modern.

Sexual minorities in literature.

LGBTQ+ people in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (111 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is now considered by many to be the most original and influential Greek poet of this century. The qualities of his poetry that were unfashionable during his lifetime are the very ones that make his work endure: his sparing use of metaphor; his evocation of spoken rhythms and colloquialisms; his use of epigrammatic and dramatic modes; his aesthetic perfectionism; his frank treatment of homosexual themes; his brilliantly alive sense of history; and his commitment to Hellenism, coupled with an astute cynicism about politics. The translations in Selected Poems are completely new. Realizing that Cavafy's language is closer to the spoken idiom than that of other leading Greek poets of his time, and that earlier translations have failed to capture the immediate, colloquial qualities of Cavafy's voice, Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard have rendered his most significant and characteristic poems in a style and rhythm as natural and apt in English as the poet's is in Greek.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Other Books by the Translators

Contents

The Poems

Che Fece . . . Il Gran Rifiuto

Thermopylae

Growing in Spirit

Waiting for the Barbarians

Trojans

King Dimitrios

Antony's Ending

The Footsteps

The City

The Satrapy

The Ides of March

Things Fulfilled

The God Abandons Antony

Ionic

Ithaka

Philhellene

Alexandrian Kings

Very Seldom

As Much as You Can

Returning from Greece

Exiles

Theodotos

He Swears

Morning Sea

Orophernis

The Battle of Magnesia

Manuel Komninos

The Distress of Selefkidis

For Ammonis, Who Died at 29, in 610

One of Their Gods

Half an Hour

Kaisarion

Body, Remember . . .

Nero's Respite

Envoys from Alexandria

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

The Afternoon Sun

Of the Jews (A.D. 50)

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

If Actually Dead

Young Men of Sidon (A.D. 400)

Dareios

Anna Komnina

An Exiled Byzantine Nobleman who Composes Verses

Alexander Valas' Favorite

Dimaratos

From the School of the Renowned Philosopher

Julian Seeing Contempt

Epitaph of Antiochos, King of Kommagini

In Alexandria, 31 B . C

John Kantakuzinos Triumphs

Of Colored Glass

The Twenty-Fifth Year of His Life

Kleitos' Illness

In a Township of Asia Minor

A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen

Julian and the Antiochians

Two Young Men, 23 to 24 Years Old

A Young Poet in His Twenty-Fourth Year

In Sparta

In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C.

A Prince from Western Libya

Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340

Alexander Jannaios and Alexandra

Come, O King of the Lacedaimonians

He Asked About the Quality

To Have Taken the Trouble

In the Year 200 B . C

On the Outskirts of Antioch

Notes

Biographical Note

Reviews

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliography: p. 97-[98]

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691646282

0691646287

9781400872923

1400872928

OCLC:

578773492