CAVAFY, C P AND GEORGE SAVIDIS AND EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. As new; clean and fresh. Less common title.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Good>Very Good. Trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (illustrator). Reprint. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. Cavafy was an ethnic Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He wrote 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. Cavafy was instrumental in the revival and recognition of Greek poetry both at home and abroad. His poems are, typically, concise but intimate evocations of real or literary figures and milieu that have played roles in Greek culture.An ex-library copy with title page missing and marks inside front cover, otherwise the text is complete, tight, clean and neat. .261p. notes bibliography. Good>Very Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (illustrator). Revised Edition. Here is an extensively revised edition of the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard which capture Cavafy's mixture of formal and idiomatic use of language and preserve the immediacy of his frank treatment of homosexual themes, his brilliant creation of history, and his astute political ironies. The re-setting of this edition has permitted the translators to review each poem and to make alterations where appropriate. George Savvidis has revised and amplified his notes in keeping with the latest edition of the Greek text of Cavafy.284p. notes bibliography.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Another fine contrbution to the Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, C.P. Cavafy's collected poems from1900-1945 being edited by George Savidis and translated from the original Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Published in 1975 in First Edition Thus Stated. Bilingual texts, original Greek on the left, English translation, facing. Imperial octavo hardcover format, oatmeal cloth over boards, rubbed gilt title over copper at spine. Very slight creasing to upper spine, else tightly bound, clean and unmarked of interior. From the personal library of the noted English historian of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Professor Peter Morris Green, now of Iowa City, Iowa, 99 years old, nearly blind, but still working, in this case on a new translation and with annotations, of Herodotus, his favorite historian. xvii [1], 2-451 [1] pp. and including a full index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.