C.P. Cavafy Selected Poems. by. Constantinos P. Cavafy, David Connolly (Translator) · Rating details · 18 ratings · 3 reviews. A selection of poems by C.P. Cavafy, translated by David Connolly. "Translations of Cavafy's poetry are the best possible counter to the often quoted platitude that poetry is what is lost in translation." A /5. The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy, Poems, The Poems of C. P. Cavafy, translated by John Mavrogordato, The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven, introduction by W. H. Auden, Harcourt (New York, NY), Fourteen Poems, Passions and Ancient Days, Selected Poems, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 'One Night,' written , was one of the erotic poems Cavafy wrote during the years in Alexandria, and referred to a passing sexual encounter. It showed the poet's devotion to a sensual pleasure, free and joyous. In book form Cavafy's poems were first published .
C. P. Cavafy () lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. C.P. Cavafy Selected Poems. by. Constantinos P. Cavafy, David Connolly (Translator) · Rating details · 18 ratings · 3 reviews. A selection of poems by C.P. Cavafy, translated by David Connolly. "Translations of Cavafy's poetry are the best possible counter to the often quoted platitude that poetry is what is lost in translation." A. W hen Constantine Cavafy died on 29 April , his 70th birthday, his work was little known beyond Greece and Alexandria, where he spent most of his life. In , with the publication of the.
Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy. by. Constantinos P. Cavafy (Translation), Edmund Keeley (Translation), Philip Sherrard (Translation) · Rating details · 30 ratings · 3 reviews. C.P. Cavafy () 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;. Selected Poems by Constantinos P. Cavafy My rating: 5 of 5 stars "I have gazed so much on beauty that my eyes overflow with it." I enjoyed Cavafy far more than I anticipated, and I expected to like him. The spellbinding verse of one of the most distinctive poetic voices of the twentieth century C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria's ancient past.
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