Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy A New Translation

Name: Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy A New Translation
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ISBN: 9780393328998

ISBN-10: 0393328996

ISBN-13: 9780393328998

Edition: 2007

Authors: C. P. Cavafy, Aliki Barnstone, Gerald Stern

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A new translation of a poet widely considered one of the most important of the twentieth century. C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) wrote some of the most powerful poems in world literature. His work uncannily translates history, the record of the many, into an individual personal document. He draws on the spectrum of Greek poetic tradition to write wickedly satirical yet internal poetry, whether his speaker is a spoiled rich boy planning to enter politics or a poor, ostracized, pure young man destroyed by poverty and priggish social mores.

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.39" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.880

Constantine Cavafy, one of the most prominent Greek poets, was born on April 29, 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt. After his father's death in 1872, Cavafy was taken to England for five years. After living in Istanbul, Cavafy returned to Alexandria, where he spent the rest of his life. In Alexandria, Cavafy worked as a civil servant. When he was 41, Cavafy's first book was privately published. Five years later the book was reissued with an additional seven poems. Cavafy published no other work in his lifetime. Cavafy died in 1933, on his birthday, at the age of 70.

JOHN BUSH JONES is the author of Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theater (Brandeis, 2003) and The Songs That Fought the War (Brandeis, 2006).



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: C. P. Cavafy: Eros and History as Prophesy


1896


Julian at the Mysteries


1897


Walls


An Old Man


The Horses of Achilles


1898


Prayer


The Funeral of Sarpedon


1899


Candles


The First Step


1900


When the Watchman Saw the Light


The Enemies


1901


Che Fece...Il Gran Rifiuto


The Souls of Old Men


Interruption


1903


The Windows


Thermopylae


Growing Strong


1904


September, 1903


December, 1903


January, 1904


On the Stairs


At the Theater


Disloyalty


Waiting for the Barbarians


Voices


Desires


1905


Trojans


1906


King Dimitrios


1907


Antony's Ending


The Procession of Dionysos


1908


Hidden Things


Monotony


1909


This Is the Man


The Footsteps


1910


The City


The Satrapy


1911


The Ides of March


Finished


A Sculptor from Tyana


The God Abandons Antony


Ionian


The Glory of the Ptolemies


Ithaka


On Hearing of Love


The Dangers


1912


Philhellene


Herodis Attikos


Alexandrian Kings


Come Back


In Church


1913


Very Rarely


As Much as You Can


For the Shop


I Went


"I Will Tell the Rest to Those Down in Hades"


Like This


1914


Exiles


The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian


The Tomb of Evrion


Chandelier


Far Off


1915


The Wise Sense What Is to Come


Theodotos


At the Cafe Door


He Swears


As I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds


One Night


Morning Sea


Drawn


1916


Orofernis


The Battle of Magnesia


Manuel Komninos


The Displeasure of the Selefkid


When They Are Aroused


In the Street


Before the Statue of Endymion


1917


In a City of Osroini


Passing Through


For Ammonis, Who Died at Twenty-nine, in 610


One of Their Gods


Evening


Sensual Pleasure


Gray


The Tomb of Iasis


In the Month of Athyr


I Have Gazed So Long


The Tomb of Ignatios


House with Garden


Days of 1903


Half an Hour


The Tobacco Shop Window


1917 or 1918


Remember, Body...


The Tomb of Lanis


Meaning


1918


Kaisarion


Nero's Term


Envoys from Alexandria


Aristovoulos


In the Port


Aimilianos Monai, Alexandrian, 628-655 C.E.


Since Nine O'Clock


1919


Outside the House


The Next Table


The Bandaged Shoulder


The Afternoon Sun


Imenos


Of the Jews (50 C.E.)


To Stay


Of Dimitrios Sotir (162-150 B.C.E.)


On the Ship


1920


If Truly Dead


Young Men from Sidon (400 C.E.)


So They Will Come


Dareios


Anna Komnini


1921


A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses


Their Beginning


The Favor of Alexandros Valas


The Melancholy of Iason Kleandros, Poet in Kommagini, 595 C.E.


Dimaratos


I Brought to Art


From the School of the Celebrated Philosopher


A Craftsman of Wine Bowls


1922


Those Who Fought for the Achaian League


To Antiohos Epifanis


In an Old Book


1923


In Despair


From the Drawer


Julian Seeing Indifference


Epitaph of Antiohos, King of Kommagini


Theater of Sidon (400 C.E.)


1924


Julian in Nikomedia


Before Time Changed Them-


He Came to Read


In Alexandria, 31 B.C.E.


Ioannis Kantakouzinos Triumphs


1925


Temethos, Antiochian, 400 C.E.


Of Colored Glass


The Twenty-fifth Year of His Life


On an Italian Shore


In the Boring Village


Apollonios of Tyana in Rhodes


1926


The Illness of Kleitos


In a Township in Asia Minor


The Priest of Serapeion


In the Bars


A Grand Procession of Priests and Laymen


A Sophist Leaving Syria


Julian and the Antiochians


1927


Anna Dalassini


Days of 1896


Two Young Men, Twenty-three to Twenty-four Years Old


Greek since Ancient Times


Days of 1901


1928


You Did Not Know


A Young Man, an Artist of the Word, in His Twenty-fifth Year


In Sparta


Portrait of a Twenty-three-Year-Old Man, Painted by His Friend the Same Age, an Amateur


In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C.E.


A Prince from Western Libya


Kimon, Son of Learhos, Twenty-two, Student of Greek Letters (in Kyrini)


On the March to Sinopi


Days of 1909, '10, and '11


1929


Myris: Alexandria, 340 C.E.


Alexandros Iannaios and Alexandra


Beautiful White Flowers Became Him


Come, O King of the Lacedaimonians


In the Same Space


1930


The Mirror in the Front Hall


He Asked about the Quality


They Should Have Cared


1931


According to the Recipes of the Ancient Greco-Syrian Magicians


In 200 B.C.E


1932


Days of 1908


1935


In the Suburbs of Antioch


A Note on the Transliteration of Names


Notes


A Note on the Text, Selection, and Order of the Poems


A Biographical Note on Cavafy


Index of Titles and First Lines