The collected poems / C.P. Cavafy ; translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou ; Greek text edited by Anthony Hirst ; with an introduction by Peter Mackridge.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xlii-xliv) and indexes.

Poems in Greek and in English translation.

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A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E.M. Forster E.M. Forster's description of C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery, whose religious, ethnic and cultural identities are blurred, and he was one of the pioneers in expressing a specifically homosexual sensibility. His poems present brief and vivid evocations of historical scenes and sensual moments, often infused with his distinctive sense of irony. They have established him as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of the 154 authorized poems ever published, together with a new English translation that conveys the accent and rhythm of Cavafy's individual tone of voice.

Introduction; Note on the Greek Text; Note on the Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of C. P. Cavafy; THE COLLECTED POEMS: POEMS 1910 [1897-1909]; Voices; Desires; Candles; An old man; Supplication; The souls of old men; The first step; Interruption; Thermopylae; Che fece . . . il gran rifiuto; The windows; [Trojans]; Walls; Waiting for the barbarians; [Monotony]; Perfidy; The funeral of Sarpedon; The horses of Achilles; [The retinue of Dionysus]; [King Demetrius]; [The footsteps]; [That is the Man]; POEMS (1905-1915); The city; Satrapy; Wise men; The ides of March

FinishedThe god forsakes Antony; Theodotus; Monotony; Ithaca; As best you can; Trojans; King Demetrius; The glory of the Ptolemies; The retinue of Dionysus; The Battle of Magnesia; The displeasure of the Seleucid; Orophernes; Alexandrian kings; Philhellene; The footsteps; Herod Atticus; Sculptor of Tyana; Tomb of the grammarian Lysias; Tomb of Eurion; That is the Man; Perilous things; Manuel Comnenus; In church; Very seldom; Of the shop; Painted; Morning sea; Ionic; At the entrance of the café; One night; Come back; Far away; He vows; I went; Chandelier; POEMS (1916-1918); Since nine o'clock-

PerceptionBefore the statue of Endymion; Envoys from Alexandria; Aristoboulos; Caesarion; Nero's term; In the harbour town; One of their gods; Tomb of Lanes; Tomb of lases; A town in Osroene; Tomb of Ignatius; In the month of Athyr; For Ammones, who died aged 29, in 610; Aemilianus Monaë, Alexandrian, A.D. 628-655; When they are roused; To sensual pleasure; So long I gazed-; In the street; The tobacconist's window; Passage; In the evening; Grey; Outside the house; The next table; Body, remember . . .; Days of 1903; POEMS 1919-1933; The afternoon sun; Has come to rest; Of the Hebrews (A.D. 50)

ImenosOn the ship; Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 B.C.); If dead indeed; Young men of Sidon (A.D. 400); That they come-; Darius; Anna Comnena; A Byzantine Nobleman, in exile, composing verses; Their origin; The favour of Alexander Balas; Melancholy of Jason, son of Kleander, poet in Commagene, A.D. 595; Demaratus; I brought to Art; From the school of the renowned philosopher; Craftsman of craters; Those who fought for the Achaean League; To Antiochus Epiphanes; In an old book-; In despair; Julian, noticing negligence; Epitaph of Antiochus, king of Commagene; Theatre of Sidon (A.D. 400)

Julian in NicomediaBefore they are changed by Time; He came to read-; In Alexandria, 31 B.C.; John Cantacuzenus prevails; Temethos, Antiochian, A.D. 400; Of coloured glass; The 25th year of his life; On an Italian shore; In the dreary village; Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes; Kleitos' illness; In a township of Asia Minor; A priest of the Serapeum; In the wine taverns-; A great procession of priests and laymen; Sophist leaving Syria; Julian and the Antiochians; Anna Dalassene; Days of 1896; Two young men, 23 to 24 years old; Greek since ancient times; Days of 1901; You didn't understand

A young man of Letters -- in his 24th year

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