The Canon: The Original One Hundred and Fifty-Four Poems (Hellenic Studies Series) (English and Greek Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674025865 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 465 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-24 |
| Language | : | English, Ancient Greek |
DESCRIPTION:
Four Stars Excellent anthology. Lucy Levant said Interesting plates of original manuscripts in the back. Though this is not my favorite translation, there are several plates in the back of the book of works in the poet's original hand.
Constantine Cavafy was a major Greek poet who worked as a journalist and civil servant during his lifetime.?Stratis Haviaris is Curator of the Poetry and Farnsworth Rooms, Harvard College Library.
M. Published here in the original Greek, with a new English translation by the noted poet Stratis Haviaris on each facing page, and with a foreword by Seamus Heaney, The Canon is Cavafy, familiar and fresh, seen through new eyes, yet instantly recognized: "the Greek gentleman in a straw hat," as Forster called him, "standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.". This volume of 154 poems by Constantine Cavafy is the entire body of work by the artist widely considered a master of modern Greek poetry. Auden brought his work to a worldwide audience. H. Cavafy was a poet of Alexandria, the city of his birth and his home throughout his adult life. S. Eliot, and W. Forster, Laurence Durrell, T. Published only privately during his lifetime, Cavafy's poems achieved international acclaim when writers such as E. At the confluence of many histories--Greek, Egyptian, Byzantine, modern European--and many religions, the city provided endless inspiration for his brief, intimate portraits of individuals, historic and contemporary, real and imagined. Homoerotic desire, artistic longing, and a nostalgic fatalism suffuse the subjects he exa
About the Author Constantine Cavafy was a major Greek poet who worked as a journalist and civil servant during his lifetime.?Stratis Haviaris is Curator of the Poetry and Farnsworth Rooms, Harvard College Library.