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 the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature.
This revised bilingual edition of Collected Poems offers the reader the original Greek texts facing what are now recognized as the standard English translations of Cavafy's poetry. It is this translation that best captures the poet's mixture of formal and idiomatic language and that preserves the immediacy of his increasingly frank treatment of homosexual eroticism, his brilliant re-creation of history, and his astute political ironies. This new bilingual edition also features the notes of editor George Savidis and a new foreword by Robert Pinsky.
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"At least as far as Cavafy's 'canon' of 154 sanctioned poems is concerned, it seems likely that the long-established version by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard ... will continue, deservedly, to hold the field."--Peter Green, New Republic
Foreword to the Bilingual Edition xv Translators' Note to the 1992
Revised Edition xxiii "PUBLISHED POEMS" Before 1911 WALLS (1896) 3 AN
OLD MAN (1897) 5 THE HORSES OF ACHILLES (1897) 7 PRAYER (1898) 9 THE
FUNERAL OF SARPEDON (1898) 11 CANDLES (1899) 15 THE FIRST STEP (1899) 17
THE SOULS OF OLD MEN (1901) 19 CHE FECE ... IL GRAN RIFIUTO (1901) 21
INTERRUPTION (1901) 23 THE WINDOWS (1903) 25 THERMOPYLAE (1903) 27
UNFAITHFULNESS (1904) 29 WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (1904) 31 VOICES (1904)
35 LONGINGS (1904) 37 TROJANS (1905) 39 KING DIMITRIOS (1906) 41 THE
RETINUE OF DIONYSOS (1907) 43 MONOTONY (1908) 45 THE FOOTSTEPS (1909) 47
THAT'S THE MAN (1909) 49 THE CITY (1910) 51 THE SATRAPY (1910) 53 1911
THE IDES OF MARCH 55 THINGS ENDED 57 SCULPTOR OF TYANA 59 THE GOD
ABANDONS ANTONY 61 IONIC 63 THE GLORY OF THE PTOLEMIES 65 ITHAKA 67
DANGEROUS THOUGHTS 71 1912 PHILHELLENE 73 HERODIS ATTIKOS 75
ALEXANDRIAN KINGS 77 COME BACK 79 IN CHURCH 81 1913 VERY SELDOM 83
AS MUCH AS YOU CAN 85 FOR THE SHOP 87 I WENT 89 1914 TOMB OF THE
GRAMMARIAN LYSIAS 91 TOMB OF EVRION 93 CHANDELIER 95 LONG AGO 97 1915
BUT THE WISE PERCEIVE THINGS ABOUT TO HAPPEN 99 THEODOTOS 101 AT THE CAFE
DOOR 103 HE SWEARS 105 ONE NIGHT 107 MORNING SEA 109 PICTURED 111
OROPHERNIS 113 THE BATTLE OF MAGNESIA 117 MANUEL KOMNINOS 119 THE
DISPLEASURE OF SELEFKIDIS 121 1916 WHEN THEY COME ALIVE 123 IN THE
STREET 125 BEFORE THE STATUE OF ENDYMION 127 1917 IN A TOWN OF OSROINI
129 PASSING THROUGH 131 FOR AMMONIS, WHO DIED AT 29, IN 610 133 ONE OF
THEIR GODS 135 IN THE EVENING 137 TO SENSUAL PLEASURE 139 GRAY 141 TOMB
OF IASIS 143 IN THE MONTH OF ATHYR 145 I'VE LOOKED SO MUCH... 147 TOMB OF
IGNATIOS 149 DAYS OF 1903 151 THE WINDOW OF THE TOBACCO SHOP 153 1918
KAISARION 155 BODY, REMEMBER... 157 TOMB OF LANIS 159 UNDERSTANDING 161
NERO'S DEADLINE 163 ENVOYS FROM ALEXANDRIA 165 ARISTOVOULOS 167 IN THE
HARBOR-TOWN 171 AIMILIANOS MONAI, ALEXANDRIAN, A.D. 628-655 173 SINCE NINE
O'CLOCK 175 OUTSIDE THE HOUSE 177 THE NEXT TABLE 179 1919 THE
AFTERNOON SUN 181 COMES TO REST 183 OF THE JEWS (A.D. 50) 185 IMENOS 187
ON BOARD SHIP 189 OF DIMITRIOS SOTIR (162-150 B.C.) 191 1920 IF
ACTUALLY DEAD 195 YOUNG MEN OF SIDON (A.D. 400) 197 TO CALL UP THE SHADES
199 DAREIOS 201 ANNA KOMNINA 205 1921 A BYZANTINE NOBLEMAN IN EXILE
COMPOSING VERSES 207 THEIR BEGINNING 209 THE FAVOR OF ALEXANDER VALAS 211
MELANCHOLY OF JASON KLEANDER, POET IN KOMMAGINI, A.D. 595 213 DIMARATOS 215
I'VE BROUGHT TO ART 219 FROM THE SCHOOL OF THE RENOWNED PHILOSOPHER 221
CRAFTSMAN OF WINE BOWLS 225 1922 THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR THE ACHAIAN
LEAGUE 227 TO ANTIOCHOS EPIPHANIS 229 IN AN OLD BOOK 231 1923 IN
DESPAIR 233 JULIAN SEEING CONTEMPT 235 EPITAPH OF ANTIOCHOS, KING OF
KOMMAGINI 237 THEATRE OF SIDON (A.D. 400) 239 1924 JULIAN IN NICOMEDIA
241 BEFORE TIME ALTERED THEM 243 HE HAD COME THERE TO READ 245 IN
ALEXANDRIA, 31 B.C. 247 JOHN KANTAKUZINOS TRIUMPHS 249 1925 TEMETHOS,
ANTIOCHIAN, A.D. 400 251 OF COLORED GLASS 253 THE TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF HIS
LIFE 255 ON AN ITALIAN SHORE 257 IN THE BORING VILLAGE 259 APOLLONIOS OF
TYANA IN RHODES 261 1926 KLEITOS' ILLNESS 263 IN A TOWNSHIP OF ASIA
MINOR 265 PRIEST AT THE SERAPEION 267 IN THE TAVERNAS 269 A GREAT
PROCESSION OF PRIESTS AND LAYMEN 271 SOPHIST LEAVING SYRIA 273 JULIAN AND
THE ANTIOCHIANS 275 1927 ANNA DALASSINI 277 DAYS OF 1896 279 TWO
YOUNG MEN, 23 TO 24 YEARS OLD 281 GREEK FROM ANCIENT TIMES 283 DAYS OF 1901
285 1928 YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND 287 A YOUNG POET IN HIS TWENTY-FOURTH
YEAR 289 IN SPARTA 291 PICTURE OF A 23-YEAR-OLD PAINTED BY HIS FRIEND OF
THE SAME AGE, AN AMATEUR 293 IN A LARGE GREEK COLONY, 200 B.C. 295 A PRINCE
FROM WESTERN LIBYA 299 KIMON, SON OF LEARCHOS, 22, STUDENT OF GREEK
LITERATURE (IN KYRINI) 301 ON THE MARCH TO SINOPI 303 DAYS OF 1909,'10,
AND'11 305 1929 MYRIS: ALEXANDRIA, A.D. 340 307 ALEXANDER JANNAIOS AND
ALEXANDRA 311 LOVELY WHITE FLOWERS 313 COME, O KING OF THE LACEDAIMONIANS
315 IN THE SAME SPACE 317 1930 THE MIRROR IN THE FRONT HALL 319 HE
ASKED ABOUT THE QUALITY 321 TO HAVE TAKEN THE TROUBLE 323 1931
FOLLOWING THE RECIPE OF ANCIENT GRECO-SYRIAN MAGICIANS 327 IN THE YEAR 200
B.C. 329 1932 DAYS OF 1908 333 "UNPUBLISHED POEMS" JULIAN AT THE
MYSTERIES (1896) 337 KING CLAUDIUS (1899) 339 WHEN THE WATCHMAN SAW THE
LIGHT (1900) 345 GROWING IN SPIRIT (1903) 347 SEPTEMBER, 1903 (1904) 349
DECEMBER, 1903 (1904) 351 ON THE STAIRS (1904) 353 AT THE THEATRE (1904)
355 POSEIDONIANS (1906) 357 ANTONY'S ENDING (1907) 359 HIDDEN THINGS
(1908) 361 ON HEARING OF LOVE (1911) 363 "THE REST I WILL TELL TO THOSE
DOWN IN HADES" (1913) 365 THE PHOTOGRAPH (1913) 367 GOING BACK HOME FROM
GREECE (1914) 369 EXILES (1914) 371 THEOPHILOS PALAIOLOGOS (1914) 373 AND
I LOUNGED AND LAY ON THEIR BEDS (1915) 375 HALF AN HOUR (1917) 377 SIMEON
(1917) 379 THE BANDAGED SHOULDER (1919) 381 ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ANTIOCH
(1932-3) 383 Editor's Introduction to the Notes 387 Appendix 393 Notes
to the Poems 395 Biographical Note 453 Alphabetical Index of Titles 459
Edmund Keeley is Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, emeritus, and professor of creative writing, emeritus, at Princeton University. Philip Sherrard (1922-1995) was research fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and lecturer in the history of the Orthodox Church at King's College, London. George Savidis (1929-1995) was professor of modern Greek at the University of Thessaloniki and George Seferis Visiting Professor at Harvard University.
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