Cavafy: Poems: Edited and Translated with notes by Daniel Mendelsohn [Hardcover]

The Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933) is a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the taboos of his time surrounding homoerotic desire.

In this edition, award-winning  translator and editor Daniel Mendelsohn has made a selection of the poet’s best-loved works, including such favorites as “Waiting for the Barbarians,” “Ithaca,” and “The God Abandons Antony.” Accompanied by Mendelsohn’s explanatory notes, the poems collected here cover the vast sweep of Hellenic civilization, from the Trojan War through Cavafy’s own lifetime. Whether advising Odysseus as he returns home to Ithaca or portraying a doomed Marc Antony on the eve of his death, Cavafy’s poems make the historic profoundly and movingly personal.Preface
 
PUBLISHED POEMS
 
POEMS 1905–1915
 
The City
The Satrapy
But Wise Men Apprehend What Is Imminent
Ides of March
Finished
The God Abandons Antony
Theodotus
Monotony
Ithaca
As Much As You Can
Trojans
King Demetrius
The Retinue of Dionysus
Alexandrian Kings
Philhellene
The Steps
The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian
Tomb of Eurion
Dangerous
Manuel Comnenus
In the Church
Very Rarely
In Stock
Painted
Morning Sea
Song of Ionia
In the Entrance of the Cafe´
One Night
Come Back
He Swears
I Went
Chandelier
 
POEMS 1916–1918
 
Since Nine -
Comprehension
Caesarion
Nero’s Deadline
One of Their Gods
Tomb of Lanes
Tomb of Iases
In a City of Osrhoene
Tomb of Ignatius
In the Month of Hathor
For Ammon, Who Died at 29 Years of Age, in 610
Whenever They Are Aroused
To Pleasure
I’ve Gazed So Much
In the Street
The Window olƒs