C.P. CAVAFY:
 ANTHOLOGY VOL. I & II Price: $18ea 2 VOLUMES $32.00 |
| Constantine P. Cavafy
(1863 - 1933) Cavafy is one of the most prominent Greek poets of modern times. He was born on April 29, 1863 and died on the same date in 1933 in Alexandria (Egypt). |
- 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 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.