The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy

Cavafy, C P

ISBN 10: 0007523378 / ISBN 13: 9780007523375

Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014

Beschreibung

The complete Cavafy poems - including the unfinished works - in a stunning new translation. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 44. Weight in Grams: 970. . 2014. Paperback. . . . .

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers V9780007523375

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy
• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0007523378
• ISBN-13: 9780007523375
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

The complete Cavafy poems – including the unfinished works – in a stunning new translation.

From the acclaimed author of ‘The Lost’, a translation that scales new heights in modern poetic rendering. With a masterful eye for irony and an ear for the music of Cavafy’s form, Daniel Mendelsohn’s translation brings to English the poet who won acclaim from generations of writers, E.M. Forster and T.S. Eliot among them.

Spanning the fall of Homeric heroes to the rise of the modern world, Cavafy’s poetry collapses the spectra of time, geography and age into intimately personal elegies. Works such as "Waiting for the Barbarians" and “Ithica”, famed for their revival of the ancient worlds, continue to address the modern reader in terms of timeless relevance. Here they are accompanied by Cavafy’s unfinished poems, translated into English for the first time. From a highly respected classicist and social essayist, Daniel Mendelsohn’s edition is uniquely placed to become the fresh, definitive edition of Cavafy in English.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Mendelsohn is a prize-winning writer and critic. His books include the international best seller The Lost, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many others; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and two collections of essays. He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.