C. P. Cavafy: Selected Poems

by Constantinos P. Cavafy and Edmund & Philip Sherrard Cavafy, C. P.; Keeley

Book Overview

C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria's ancient past. Figures from antiquity speak with telling interruptions from the author in such poems as 'Anna Comnena' and 'You did not understand', while precise moments of history are seen with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141185619
• ISBN13: 9780141185613
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Timeless Verse

I really like these poems, although they are classics they hold a very modern conversational quality to them.