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Complete Poems

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The complete Cavafy poems - including the unfinished works - in a stunning new translation.

From the acclaimed author of 'The Lost', a translation that scales new heights in modern poetic rendering. With a masterful eye for irony and an ear for the music of Cavafy's form, Daniel Mendelsohn's translation brings to English the poet who won acclaim from generations of writers, E.M. Forster and T.S. Eliot among them.

Spanning the fall of Homeric heroes to the rise of the modern world, Cavafy's poetry collapses the spectra of time, geography and age into intimately personal elegies. Works such as "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "Ithica", famed for their revival of the ancient worlds, continue to address the modern reader in terms of timeless relevance. Here they are accompanied by Cavafy's unfinished poems, translated into English for the first time. From a highly respected classicist and social essayist, Daniel Mendelsohn's edition is uniquely placed to become the fresh, definitive edition of Cavafy in English.

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ISBN: 9780007523375
Publication date:
Author: Constantine Cavafy
Publisher: William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 752 pages
Genres: Poetry by individual poets
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Ancient Greek and Roman literature
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Translation and interpretation