C.P. Cavafy : : Collected Poems. - Revised Edition / / C. P. Cavafy; ed. by George Savidis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Cavafy, C. P.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Keeley, Edmund.; Sherrard, Philip.
• HerausgeberIn: Savidis, George,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation ; 146
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

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 ?

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Translators' Foreword to the Revised Edition -- ''PUBLISHED POEMS'' -- ''UNPUBLISHED POEMS'' -- Editor's Introduction to the Notes -- Appendix -- Notes to the Poems -- Biographical Note -- Alphabetical Index of Titles -- The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation