Passions and ancient days
1963
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3.85
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64
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The discovery of new poems by a great poet thirty years after his death is archeological in its unexpected delight. Such an experience is exotic in the highest sense- as in the reading experience offered here. The poems offered here in the most successful translation to date and the first collection to appear with facing Greek text, represent the full chronological and thematic scope of his work and do not falter from the high standards that he has already set for us. (Bilingual Greek - English Edition)
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Author
Constantinos P. Cavafy
Author · 20 books
Constantine P. Cavafy (also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes; Greek Κ.Π. Καβάφης) was a major Greek poet who worked as a journalist and civil servant. His consciously individual style earned him a place among the most important figures not only in Greek poetry, but in Western poetry as well. He has been called a skeptic and a neo-pagan. In his poetry he examines critically some aspects of Christianity, patriotism, and homosexuality, though he was not always comfortable with his role as a nonconformist. He published 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. His most important poetry was written after his fortieth birthday.
