Cavafy Poems
$28.20
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2014
Summary
A selection of the Greek poet’s most important and best-loved poems, in a beautiful pocket-sized hardcover edition with full-cloth binding and silk ribbon marker.
In 2009 Knopf published a new translation of Cavafy’s Complete Poems by the brilliant and award-winning writer and scholar Daniel Mendelsohn. Now Mendelsohn has made a selection of the poet’s best-loved works for a Pocket Poets edition, including such favorites as “Waiting for the Barbarians,” “Ithaca,” and “The God Abandons…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841597966 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1841597961 |
| Author: | Constantine P. Cavafy |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 223g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 113mm x 165mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET POETS |
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Constantine P. Cavafy
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933)
C. P. Cavafy was a Greek poet who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He worked as a journalist and civil servant. Cavafy published 154 poems, with dozens more remaining incomplete. His fame grew substantially after his death.
About the Translator/Editor
Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews and essays appear regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. His award-winning books include The Elusive Embrace and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Medicis. He teaches at Bard College.
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