The Canon: The Original One Hundred and Fifty-Four Poems (Hellenic Studies Series) (English and Greek Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (748 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674025865 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 465 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-11 |
| Language | : | English, Ancient Greek |
DESCRIPTION:
nancy preuss said Four Stars. Excellent anthology. "Interesting plates of original manuscripts in the back" according to Lucy Levant. 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.
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.
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.
Auden brought his work to a worldwide audience. 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. Eliot, and W. Homoerotic desire, artistic longing, and a nostalgic fatalism suffuse the subjects he examined and laid bare, without metaphor or simile, in free iambic verse. Forster, Laurence Durrell, T. H. S. 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. 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.". M. Cavafy was a poet of Alexandria, the city of his birth and his h