Complete Poems of Cavafy (With an Introduction By W.H.Auden) by Cavafy, C.P. (Constantine P) - 1961

Princeton University Press, 1975. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text.

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Princeton University Press, 1992-07-01. Paperback. Good.

Princeton University Press. Very Good. 1975. Paperback. 0691013209 . 261 pages .

Princeton U, 1980. 6th trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear, price sticker on rear cover.Translated by Edmund Kelley and Philip Sherrard, editied by George Savidis.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 one the most important figures in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature.Here is a 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.

New York: Princeton University Press, 1992 Ex-Library. Illus. by Trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Good>Very Good. Original Wraps. Reprint. Edited by George Savidis. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Cavafy was an ethnic Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He wrote 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. Cavafy was instrumental in the revival and recognition of Greek poetry both at home and abroad. His poems are, typically, concise but intimate evocations of real or literary figures and milieu that have played roles in Greek culture. This is an ex-library copy with title page missing and marks inside front cover, otherwise the text is tight, unmarked, clean and neat.261p. notes bibliography.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press, 1975. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/Good; sound w/edge wear & creasing to corner. Anthology of poems, published and unpublished from Egyptian Greek poet, journalist and civil servant Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933), translated w/biographical notes. A voice of culture iin dedcline --- hence ours as well. Posthumous publication 2 years after poet's 40th birthday; this is the English rendition published w/o ISBN. 262 pgs w/poems in chronological order. Poems include "An Old Man", 1894: "At the noisy end of the cafe, head bent/ Over the table, an old man sits alone/ A newspaper in front of him/.../ But so much thinking, so much remembering./ Makes the old man dizzy. He falls asleep/ His head resting on the cafe table"; "As Much As You Can", "Even if you can't shape your life the way you want/ ... Do not degrade it by draggin it along/ To the daily… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Paperback. xvii, 261p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. See Young 625*.