C.P. Cavafy Collected Poems

by Cavafy, C. P.; Keeley, Edmund; Sherrard, Philip

Edition: Revised

ISBN13: 9780691069845

ISBN10: 0691069840

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 1992-10-01

Publisher(s): Princeton Univ Pr

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C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) 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. Here is an extensively revised edition of the acclaimed translations of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, which capture Cavafy's mixture of formal and idiomatic use of language and preserve the immediacy of his frank treatment of homosexual themes, his brilliant re-creation of history, and his astute political ironies. The resetting of the entire edition has permitted the translators to review each poem and to make alterations where appropriate. George Savidis has revised the notes according to his latest edition of the Greek text. About the first edition: "The best [English version] we are likely to see for some time."--James Merrill, The New York Review of Books "[Keeley and Sherrard] have managed the miracle of capturing this elusive, inimitable, unforgettable voice. It is the most haunting voice I know in modern poetry."--Walter Kaiser, The New Republic

Translators' Foreword to the Revised Edition
Walls (1896)	p. 3
An Old Man (1897)	p. 4
The Horses of Achilles (1897)	p. 5
Prayer (1898)	p. 6
The Funeral of Sarpedon (1898)	p. 7
Candles (1899)	p. 9
The First Step (1899)	p. 10
The Souls of Old Men (1901)	p. 11
Che Fece ... Il Gran Rifiuto (1901)	p. 12
Interruption (1901)	p. 13
The Windows (1903)	p. 14
Thermopylae (1903)	p. 15
Unfaithfulness (1904)	p. 16
Waiting for the Barbarians (1904)	p. 18
Voices (1904)	p. 20
Longings (1904)	p. 21
Trojans (1905)	p. 22
King Dimitrios (1906)	p. 23
The Retinue of Dionysos (1907)	p. 24
Monotony (1908)	p. 25
The Footsteps (1909)	p. 26
That's the Man (1909)	p. 27
The City (1910)	p. 28
The Satrapy (1910)	p. 29
The Ides of March	p. 30
Things Ended	p. 31
Sculptor of Tyana	p. 32
The God Abandons Antony	p. 33
Ionic	p. 34
The Glory of the Ptolemies	p. 35
Ithaka	p. 36
Dangerous Thoughts	p. 38
Philhellene	p. 39
Herodis Attikos	p. 40
Alexandrian Kings	p. 41
Come Back	p. 43
In Church	p. 44
Very Seldom	p. 45
As Much as You Can	p. 46
For the Shop	p. 47
I Went	p. 48
Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias	p. 49
Tomb of Evrion	p. 50
Chandelier	p. 51
Long Ago	p. 52
But the Wise Perceive Things About to Happen	p. 53
Theodotos	p. 54
At the Cafe Door	p. 55
He Swears	p. 56
One Night	p. 57
Morning Sea	p. 58
Pictured	p. 59
Orophernis	p. 60
The Battle of Magnesia	p. 62
Manuel Komninos	p. 63
The Displeasure of Selefkidis	p. 64
When They Come Alive	p. 66
In the Street	p. 67
Before the Statue of Endymion	p. 68
In a Town of Osroini	p. 69
Passing Through	p. 70
For Ammonis, Who Died at 29, in 610	p. 71
One of Their Gods	p. 72
In the Evening	p. 73
To Sensual Pleasure	p. 74
Gray	p. 75
Tomb of Iasis	p. 76
In the Month of Athyr	p. 77
I've Looked So Much....	p. 78
Tomb of Ignatios	p. 79
Days of 1903	p. 80
The Window of the Tobacco Shop	p. 81
Kaisarion	p. 82
Body, Remember....	p. 84
Tomb of Lanis	p. 85
Understanding	p. 86
Nero's Deadline	p. 87
Envoys from Alexandria	p. 88
Aristovoulos	p. 89
In the Harbor-Town	p. 91
Aimilianos Monai, Alexandrian, A.D. 628-655	p. 92
Since Nine O'clock	p. 93
Outside the House	p. 94
The Next Table	p. 95
The Afternoon Sun	p. 96
Comes to Rest	p. 97
Of the Jews (A.D. 50)	p. 98
Imenos	p. 99
On Board Ship	p. 100
Of Dimitrios Sotir (162-150 B.C.)	p. 101
If Actually Dead	p. 103
Young Men of Sidon (A.D. 400)	p. 105
To Call Up the Shades	p. 106
Dareios	p. 107
Anna Komnina	p. 109
A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses	p. 110
Their Beginning	p. 111
The Favor of Alexander Valas	p. 112
Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Kommagini, A.D. 595	p. 113
Dimaratos	p. 114
I've Brought to Art	p. 116
From the School of the Renowned Philosopher	p. 117
Craftsman of Wine Bowls	p. 119
Those Who Fought for the Achaian League	p. 120
To Antiochos Epiphanis	p. 121
In an Old Book	p. 122
In Despair	p. 123
Julian Seeing Contempt	p. 124
Epitaph of Antiochos, King of Kommagini	p. 125
Theatre of Sidon (A.D. 400)	p. 126
Julian in Nicomedia	p. 127
Before Time Altered Them	p. 128
He Had Come There to Read	p. 129
In Alexandria, 31 B.C.	p. 130
John Kantakuzinos Triumphs	p. 131
Temethos, Antiochian, A.D. 400	p. 132
Of Colored Glass	p. 133
The Twenty-Fifth Year of His Life	p. 134
On an Italian Shore	p. 135
In the Boring Village	p. 136
Apollonios of Tyana in Rhodes	p. 137
Kleitos' Illness	p. 138
In a Township of Asia Minor	p. 139
Priest at the Serapeion	p. 140
In the Tavernas	p. 141
A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen	p. 142
Sophist Leaving Syria	p. 143
Julian and the Antiochians	p. 144
Anna Dalassini	p. 145
Days of 1896	p. 146
Two Young Men, 23 to 24 Years Old	p. 147
Greek from Ancient Times	p. 149
Days of 1901	p. 150
You Didn't Understand	p. 151
A Young Poet in His Twenty-Fourth Year	p. 152
In Sparta	p. 153
Picture of a 23-year-old Painted by his Friend of the Same Age, an Amateur	p. 154
In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C.	p. 155
A Prince from Western Libya	p. 157
Kimon, Son of Learchos, 22, Student of Greek Literature (In Kyrini)	p. 158
On the March to Sinopi	p. 160
Days of 1909, '10, and '11	p. 161
Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340	p. 162
Alexander Jannaios and Alexandra	p. 165
Lovely White Flowers	p. 166
Come, O King of the Lacedaimonians	p. 167
In the Same Space	p. 168
The Mirror in the Front Hall	p. 169
He Asked About the Quality	p. 170
To Have Taken the Trouble	p. 172
Following the Recipe of Ancient Greco-Syrian Magicians	p. 174
In the Year 200 B.C.	p. 175
Days of 1908	p. 177
Julian at the Mysteries (1896)	p. 181
King Claudius (1899)	p. 183
When the Watchman Saw the Light (1900)	p. 187
Growing in Spirit (1903)	p. 188
September, 1903 (1904)	p. 189
December, 1903 (1904)	p. 190
On the Stairs (1904)	p. 191
At the Theatre (1904)	p. 192
Poseidonians (1906)	p. 193
Antony's Ending (1907)	p. 194
Hidden Things (1908)	p. 195
On Hearing of Love (1911)	p. 196
"The Rest I Will Tell to Those Down in Hades" (1913)	p. 197
The Photograph (1913)	p. 198
Going Back Home from Greece (1914)	p. 199
Exiles (1914)	p. 200
Theophilos Palaiologos (1914)	p. 201
And I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds (1915)	p. 202
Half an Hour (1917)	p. 203
Simeon (1917)	p. 204
The Bandaged Shoulder (1919)	p. 205
On the Outskirts of Antioch (1932-33)	p. 206
Editor's Introduction to the Notes	p. 209
Appendix	p. 215
Notes to the Poems	p. 217
Biographical Note	p. 275
Alphabetical Index of Titles	p. 281
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