C. P. Cavafy Collected Poems

Cavafy, Constantine P

ISBN 10: 0701136626 / ISBN 13: 9780701136628

Editore: Chatto & Windus, 1990

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Riassunto:

The Greek poet C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived most of his life in Alexandria, where he was content to circulate his work only among a select group of readers; but since his death he has come to be recognised and widely enjoyed as one of the great poets of the twentieth century in any language celebrated for his elegant formal structures, for his brilliant reanimation of myth and for his subtle treatment of erotic experience.

Lawrence Durrell has written of this masterly translation: ‘Cavafy has now at last fallen upon translators who can do justice to his wry melodious poems, glinting with insight as if from veins of mica’.

Informazioni sull?autore: Constantine P. Cavafy was born on 29 April 1863 in Alexandria, Egypt, to Greek parents. He lived in Liverpool and Constantinople as well as Alexandria. He worked as a journalist and as a civil servant, publishing his early poetry in broadsheet form to show to his close friends. His style was very different to most contemporary Greek poetry and his poems were largely unappreciated until the 1920s and his reputation really grew posthumously. He died on 29 April 1933, his 70th birthday.

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Titolo: C. P. Cavafy Collected Poems
Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus
Data di pubblicazione: 1990
Legatura: Soft cover
Condizione: Very Good