
Poems
The Canon
C. P. Cavafy(Author)
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis(Editor)
Harvard Department of the Classics (Publisher)
Published on 12. September 2011
Book
Hardback
420 pages
978-0-674-05326-7 (ISBN)
Description
C. P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. He was born, lived, and died in Alexandria (1863-1933), with brief periods spent in England, Constantinople, and Athens. Cavafy set in motion the most powerful modernism in early twentieth-century European poetry, exhibiting simple truths about eroticism, history, and philosophy-an inscrutable triumvirate that informs the Greek language and culture in all their diachrony. The Cavafy Canon plays with the complexities of ironic Socratic thought, suffused with the honesty of unadorned iambic verse.
Based on a fifty-year continuous scholarly and literary interaction with Cavafy's poetry and its Greek and western European intertexts, John Chioles has produced an authoritative and exceptionally nuanced translation of the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy's Canon into English.
Based on a fifty-year continuous scholarly and literary interaction with Cavafy's poetry and its Greek and western European intertexts, John Chioles has produced an authoritative and exceptionally nuanced translation of the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy's Canon into English.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-674-05326-7 (9780674053267)
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Constantine P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) was a major Greek poet who worked as a journalist and civil servant during his lifetime. Dimitrios Yatromanolakis is a former Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University and a recipient of the Berlin Prize. John Chioles is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at New York University.