num_pages: 224
description: The Greek poet C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived most of his life in Alexandria, where he was content to circulate his work only among a select group of readers; but since his death he has come to be recognised and widely enjoyed as one of the great poets of the twentieth century in any language celebrated for his elegant formal structures, for his brilliant reanimation of myth and for his subtle treatment of erotic experience. Lawrence Durrell has written of this masterly translation: Cavafy has now at last fallen upon translators who can do justice to his wry melodious poems, glinting with insight as if from veins of mica.
language: English
title: C.P.Cavafy Collected Poems
titlecomplete: C.P.Cavafy Collected Poems
genres: Fiction, Egypt, Poetry, Greece, LGBT, Queer, Literature, Classics, 19th Century, 20th Century
ratings_count: 4217
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Poetry
publisher: Chatto & Windus