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16%OFFC. P. Cavafy - Poems: The Canon - 9780674053267 - V9780674053267
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Poems: The Canon

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Description for Poems: The Canon Hardback. CP Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. This title plays with the complexities of ironic Socratic thought, suffused with the honesty of unadorned iambic verse. It offers a translation of the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy's Canon into English. Editor(s): Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios. Translator(s): Chioles, John. Series: Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 558.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard Department of the Classics United States
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674053267
SKU
V9780674053267
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About C. P. Cavafy
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.

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