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<p><P>An extraordinary literary event&#58; the simultaneous publication of a brilliant and vivid new rendering of C. P. Cavafy&#8217;s <i>Collected Poems</i> and<i> </i>the first-ever English translation of the poet&#8217;s thirty <i>Unfinished Poems,</i> both featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English&#8212;by the acclaimed critic, scholar, and award-winning author of <i>The Lost.</i><br><br>No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early-twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863&#8211;1933). Now, after more than a decade of work and study, and with the cooperation of the Cavafy Archive in Athens, Daniel Mendelsohn&#8212;a classics scholar who alone among Cavafy&#8217;s translators shares the poet&#8217;s deep intimacy with the ancient world&#8212;is uniquely positioned to give readers full access to Cavafy&#8217;s genius. And we hear for the first time the remarkable music of his poetry&#58; the sensuous rhymes, rich assonance

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Author

C.P. Cavafy

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375400964

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.37 / 5 (110 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14