Cavafy, Constantine P.

The Selected Poems of Cavafy (Penguin modern classics poetry)

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ISBN 13:: 9780141185613
author:: Cavafy, Constantine P.
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Penguin Classics
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2008
Pages:: 256
Dimensions:: 13 x 1.6 x 19.8 centimetres (0.2
Genre:: Poetry texts & anthologies
Condition:: New
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Cavafy's poetry is a world of remembered passions and imagined monologues, conjuring a magical interior realm through lyrical evocations of his native Alexandria's ancient past. Figures from antiquity interrupt the author's thoughts in poems like "Anna Comnena" and "You did not understand", while precise moments of history are seen with foreboding in works such as "Ides of March" and "The God Abandoning Antony".

These poems also draw on Cavafy's own life and surroundings, recalling illicit trysts or glimpses of beautiful young men in "One Night", "I have gazed so much", and "The Café Entrance". Exquisite miniatures of everyday life can be found in "An Old Man" and "Of the Shop", creating a unique portrait of the world around him.

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