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lxi, 547 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-538) and index. |
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Published poems. Poems 1905-1915. The city -- The satrapy -- But Wise Men apprehend what is imminent -- Ides of March -- Finished -- The god abandons Antony -- Theodotus -- Monotony -- Ithaca -- As much as you can -- Trojans -- King Demetrius -- The glory of the Ptolemies -- The retinue of Dionysus -- The Battle of Magnesia -- The Seleucid's displeasure -- Orophernes -- Alexandrian kings -- Philhellene -- The steps -- Herodes Atticus -- Sculptor from Tyana -- The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian -- Tomb of Eurion -- That is he -- Dangerous -- Manuel Comnenus -- In the church -- Very rarely -- In stock -- Painted -- Morning sea -- Song of Ionia -- In the entrance of the café -- One night -- Come back -- Far off -- He swears -- I went -- Chandelier. |
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Published poems. Poems 1916-1919. Since nine -- Comprehension -- In the presence of the statue of Endymion -- Envoys from Alexandria -- Aristobulus -- Caesarion -- Nero's deadline -- Safe haven -- One of their gods -- Tomb of Lanes -- Tomb of Iases -- In a city of Osrhoene -- Tomb of Ignatius -- In the month of Hathor -- For Ammon, who died at 29 years of age, in 610 -- Aemilian son of Monaës, an Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D. -- Whenever they are aroused -- To pleasure -- I've gazed so much -- In the street -- The window of the tobacco shop -- Passage -- In evening -- Gray -- Below the house -- The next table -- Remember, body -- Days of 1903. |
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Published poems. Poems 1919-1933. The afternoon sun -- To stay -- Of the Jews (50 A.D.) -- Imenus -- Aboard the ship -- Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 B.C.) -- If indeed he died -- Young men of Sidon (400 A.D.) -- That they come -- Darius -- Anna Comnena -- Byzantine noble, in exile, versifying -- Their beginning -- Favour of Alexander Balas -- Melancholy of Jason, son of Cleander : poet in Commagene : 595 A.D. -- Demaratus -- I brought to art -- From the school of the renowned philosopher -- Maker of wine bowls -- Those who fought on behalf of the Achaean League -- For Antiochus Epiphanes -- In an old book -- In despair -- Julian, seeing indifference -- Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Commagene -- Theater of Sidon (400 A.D.)-- Julian in Nicomedia -- Before time could alter them -- He came to read -- The year 31 B.C. in Alexandria -- John Cantacuzenus triumphs -- Temethus, an Antiochene : 400 A.D. -- Of colored glass -- The 25th year of his life -- On the Italian seashore -- In the boring village -- Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes -- Cleitus's illness -- In a municipality of Asia Minor -- Priest of the Serapeum -- In the taverns -- A great procession of priests and laymen -- Sophist departing from Syria -- Julian and the Antiochenes -- Anna Dalassene -- Days of 1896 -- Two young men, 23 to 24 years old -- Greek since ancient times -- Days of 1901 -- You didn't understand -- A young man, skilled in the art of the word, in his 24th year -- In Sparta -- Portrait of a young man of twenty-three done by his friend of the same age, an amateur -- In a large Greek colony, 200 B.C. -- Potentate from Western Libya -- Cimon son of Learchus, 22 years old, teacher of Greek letters (in Cyrene) -- On the march to Sinope -- Days of 1909, '10, and '11 -- Myres : Alexandria in 340 A.D. -- Alexander Jannaeus, and Alexandra -- Beautiful, white flowers as they went so well -- Come now, King of the Lacedaemonians -- In the same space -- The mirror in the entrance -- He asked about the quality -- Should have taken the trouble -- According to the formulas of ancient Greco-Syrian magicians -- In 200 B.C. -- Days of 1908 -- On the outskirts of Antioch. |
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Poems published 1897-1908. Contents of the Sengopoulos notebook. Voices -- Longings -- Candles -- An old man -- Prayer -- Old men's souls -- The first step -- Interruption -- Thermopylae -- Che Fece, Il gran rifiuto -- The windows -- Walls -- Waiting for the Barbarians -- Betrayal -- The funeral of Sarpedon -- The horses of Achilles. |
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Repudiated poems (1886-1898). Brindisi -- The poet and the Muse -- Builders -- Word and silence -- Sham-el-Nessim -- Bard -- Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat -- Good and bad weather -- Timolaus the Syracusan -- Athena's vote -- The inkwell -- Sweet voices -- Elegy of the flowers -- Hours of melancholy -- Oedipus -- Ode and elegy of the streets -- Near an open window -- A love -- Remembrance -- The death of the Emperor Tacitus --The Eumenides' footfalls -- The tears of Phaëthon's sisters -- Ancient tragedy -- Horace in Athens -- Voice from the sea -- The Tarentines have their fun -- The funeral of Sarpedon. |
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Unpublished poems (1877?-1923). The Beyzade to his lady-love -- Dünya Güzeli -- When, my friends, I was in love -- Nichori -- Song of the heart -- To Stephanos Skilitsis -- Correspondences according to Baudelaire -- [Fragment of an untitled poem] -- "Nous n'osons plus chanter les roses" -- Indian image -- Pelasgian image -- The hereafter -- The mimiambs of Herodas -- Azure eyes -- The four walls of my room -- Alexandrian merchant -- The Lagid's hospitality -- In the cemetery -- Priam's march by night -- Epitaph -- Displeased theatregoer -- Before Jerusalem -- Second odyssey -- He who fails -- The pawn -- Dread -- In the house of the soul -- Rain -- La Jeunesse Blanche -- Distinguishing marks -- Eternity -- Confusion -- Salome -- Chaldean image -- Julian at the mysteries -- The cat -- The bank of the future -- Impossible things -- Addition -- Garlands -- Lohengrin -- Suspicion -- Death of a general -- The intervention of the gods -- King Claudius -- The naval battle -- When the watchman saw the light -- The enemies -- Artificial flowers -- Strengthening -- September of 1903 -- December 1903 -- January of 1904 -- On the stairs -- In the theatre -- Poseidonians -- The end of Antony -- 27 June 1906, 2 P.M. -- Hidden hearing of love -- "The rest shall I tell in Hades to those below" -- That's how -- Homecoming from Greece -- Fugitives -- Theophilus Palaeologus -- And I got down and I lay there in their beds -- Half an hour -- House with garden -- A great feast at the house of Sosibius -- Simeon -- The bandaged shoulder -- Coins -- It was taken -- From the drawer. |
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Prose Poems. The regiment of pleasure -- Ships -- Clothes. |
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Poems written in English. [More happy Thou, performing member] -- Leaving Therápia -- Darkness and shadows. |
| Subject |
Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933 -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-
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| Added Title |
Poems. English
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C.P. Cavafy : collected poems |
| ISBN |
9780375400964 |
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0375400966 |
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