The Canon: The Original One Hundred and Fifty-Four Poems

by Constantinos P. Cavafy

Book Overview

This volume of 154 poems by Constantine Cavafy is the entire body of work by the artist widely considered a master of modern Greek poetry. Published only privately during his lifetime, Cavafy's poems achieved international acclaim when writers such as E. M. Forster, Laurence Durrell, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden brought his work to a worldwide audience.

Cavafy was a poet of Alexandria, the city of his birth and his home throughout his adult...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674025865
• ISBN13: 9780674025868
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 465 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.8"