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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 a sense of foreboding, as in Ides of March , The God Abandoning Antony and Nero s Deadline . And in poems that draw on his own life and surroundings, Cavafy recalls illicit trysts or glimpses of beautiful young men in One Night , I have gazed so much and The Caf Entrance , and creates exquisite miniatures of everyday life in An Old Man and Of the Shop .
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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:27/03/2008
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:27/03/2008
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- ISBN:9780141916088