The Selected Poems of Cavafy

Name: The Selected Poems of Cavafy
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780141185613-G
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By Cavafy, C. P.

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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. Figures from antiquity speak with telling interruptions from the author in such poems as 'Anna Comnena' and 'You did not understand', while precise moments of history are seen with a sense of foreboding, as in 'Ides of March', 'The God Abandoning Antony' and 'Nero's Deadline'. And in poems that draw on his own life and surroundings, Cavafy recalls illicit trysts or glimpses of beautiful young men in 'One Night', 'I have gazed so much' and 'The Café Entrance', and creates exquisite miniatures of everyday life in 'An Old Man' and 'Of the Shop'. Winner of the prestigious Harold Morton Landon Translation Award 2009

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 256
Release Date:: 2008-03-27
Publication Date:: 2008-03-27
Publisher:: Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0141185619
ISBN13:: 9780141185613
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:: 18
Maximum Reading Age:: 99
Weight:: 195 g
Height:: 131 cm
Width:: 199 cm
Thickness:: 19 cm

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