Poems: The Canon (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780674053267)

C. P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. He was born, lived, and died in Alexandria (1863-1933), with brief periods spent in England, Constantinople, and Athens. Cavafy set in motion the most powerful modernism in early twentieth-century European poetry, exhibiting simple truths about eroticism, history, and philosophy--an inscrutable triumvirate that informs the Greek language and culture in all their diachrony. The Cavafy Canon plays with the complexities of ironic Socratic thought, suffused with the honesty of unadorned iambic verse.

Based on a fifty-year continuous scholarly and literary interaction with Cavafy's poetry and its Greek and western European intertexts, John Chioles has produced an authoritative and exceptionally nuanced translation of the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy's Canon into English.

Author: C. P. Cavafy
ISBN-10: 0674053265
ISBN-13: 9780674053267
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2011
Pages: 420
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.20d