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by: C.P. Cavafy
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 889.132
EAN: 9780156198202
ISBN: 0156198207
Label: Harvest Books
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: October 04, 1976
Publisher: Harvest Books
Sales Rank: 387952
Studio: Harvest Books
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Cavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the poems are openly homosexual. Sixty-three newly translated poems have been added to the widely praised edition which includes the classic poem “Ithaca.” Introduction by W. H. Auden. Translated by Rae Dalven.
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Rating:  - The world of Cavafy
Cavafy writes what is in his heart. This complete collection is excellent and worth owning.
Rating: - perspective from a non-scholar
I have only recently come to read the other translations of Cavafy's work and I still like this one best. Dalven's translation flows, the words - both in choice and placement - just seem more evocative and well-suited to the poems. Other translations seem... awkward somehow, with extra words at the end of lines that spoil the tone, or with terms that don't carry the same weight or charm.
I do recognize the frustration that Greek readers must feel at the lack of rhyme or rhythm. (I certainly ... Read More
Rating: - To the Most Audacious Amorous Desires
Among the poets of the twentieth century, there is maybe one who can confidently say, "I am better than Cavafy." Yet, on a top five list of the twentieth century's greatest poets, Cavafy is far less likely to appear than, say, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, or W. H. Auden, yet Cavafy's work can stand against any of these.
Poets tend to squabble with tired questions, faith vs. reason, contemplation vs. experience, knowledge vs. serenity, life vs. language, etc. ... Read More
Rating: - life reality
candles ithaca speaks and compering for life it is amazing.
Rating: - A note on the translation
This review is not about the work of Cavafy itself, which I love, but a comment on the translation. Many critics have complained that a great deal is lost in a translation of Cavafy, particularly some of the linguistic and stylistic craftsmanship, and that is true of any translation of a poet. However, I believe the tone or the mood of poems, so important in a poet like Cavafy, are underemphasized, and if a translation is capable of conveying them with profundity, it is commendable; and in this respect the ... Read More
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