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Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy
By (Author) C. P. Cavafy
Translated by Edmund Keeley
Translated by Philip Sherrard
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
889.132
Hardback
112
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
312g
C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is now considered by many to be the most original and influential Greek poet of this century. The qualities of his poetry that were unfashionable during his lifetime are the very ones that make his work endure: his sparing use of metaphor; his evocation of spoken rhythms and colloquialisms; his use of epigrammatic and dramat