The complete poems of Cavafy (i.e. K. P. Kabaphēs)
By: translated by Rae Dalven ; with an introd. by W. H. Auden.
Contributors: Dalven, Rae.
Edition: Expanded ed.
Series: A Harvest book
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; gre
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 311
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography, p. 310-311.
Table of contents: title: Before 1911. Desires -- Voices -- Supplication -- The First Step -- An Old Man -- Candles -- Thermopylae -- Che Fece … Il Gran Rifiuto -- The Souls of Old Men -- Interruption -- The Windows -- The Trojans -- Footsteps -- Monotony -- Walls -- Expecting the Barbarians -- Infidelity -- The Funeral of Sarpedon -- Dionysus and his Crew -- The Horses of Achilles -- He is the Man -- King Demetrius -- The City -- Satrapy -- 1911. The Ides of March -- The God Forsakes Antony -- Finalities -- Ionian Song -- Sculptor of Tyana -- Perilous Things -- The Glory of the Ptolemies -- Ithaca -- 1912. Herod of Attica -- Philhellene -- Alexandrian Kings -- In Church -- Return -- 1913. As Much as You Can -- Very Seldom -- I Went -- Of the Shop -- 1914. The Grave of the Grammarian Lysias -- Far Off -- The Grave of Eurion -- Chandelier -- 1915. Theodotus -- But Wise Men Perceive Approaching Things -- Morning Sea -- At the Cafe Entrance -- Orophernes -- He Swears -- On Painting -- One Night -- The Battle of Magnesia -- Manuel Comnenus -- The Displeasure of the Son of Seleucus -- 1916. On the Street -- When They are Roused -- Before the Statue of Endymion -- 1917. Gray -- In a Town of Osroene -- One of Their Gods -- Tomb of Iases -- Passage -- In the Evening -- For Ammonis, Who Died at 29 in 610 -- In the Month of Athyr -- The Tomb of Ignatius -- So Much I Gazed -- Days of 1903 -- The Tobacco-Shop Window -- Sensual Delight -- 1918. Caesarion -- In Harbor -- Body, Remember… -- The Tomb of Lanes -- Nero's Term -- The Next Table -- Understanding -- Envoys From Alexandria -- Since Nine O'Clock- -- Aristoboulus -- At the Foot of the House -- Aemilianus Monae Alexandrian, A.D. 628-655 -- 1919. Of the Hebrews (A.D. 50) -- To Remain -- Imenus -- On the Ship -- Of Demetrius Soter, 162-150 B.C. -- Afternoon Sun -- 1920. If Dead Indeed -- Anna Comnena -- For Them to Come -- Young Men of Sidon (A.D. 400) -- Darius -- 1921. A Byzantine Noble in Exile Writing Verses -- Favor of Alexander Balas -- I Brought to Art -- Their Beginning -- Demaratus -- An Artisan of Wine-Mixing Bowls -- Melancholy of Jason, Son of Cleander; Poet in Commagene; A.D. 595 -- From the School of the Renowned Philosopher -- 1922. To Antiochus Epiphanes -- Those Who Fought for the Achaean League -- In an Old Book -- 1923. Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Commagene -- Julian Seeing Indifference -- Theater of Sidon (A.D. 400) -- In Despair -- 1924. Julian in Nicomedeia -- Before Time Changes Them -- In Alexandria, 31 B.C. -- John Cantacuzenus Triumphs -- He Came to Read -- 1925. By an Italian Shore -- Of Colored Glass -- Temethos of Antioch, A.D. 400 -- Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes -- In the Monotonous Village -- The 25th Year of His Life -- 1926. Kleitos' Illness -- In the Taverns -- Sophist Leaving Syria -- In a Township of Asia Minor -- Julian and The People of Antioch -- A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen -- Priest at the Serapeum -- 1927. Anna Dalassene -- Greek Since Ancient Times -- Days of 1901 -- Two Young Men 23 to 24 -- Days of 1896 -- 1928. A Young Man in His 24th Year, Skilled in the Art of the Word -- In a Famous Greek Colony, 200 B.C. -- Picture of a 23-Year-Old Youth Painted by His Friend of the Same Age, An Amateur -- Understood Not -- Cimon, Son of Learchus, A 22-Year-Old Student of Greek Letters (In Cyrene) -- In Sparta -- Days of 1909, 1910, 1911 -- A Sovereign from Western Libya -- On the March to Sinope -- 1929. Myres: Alexandria, A.D. 340 -- In the Same Space -- Alexander Jannaius and Alexandra -- Come, O King of the Lacedaemonians -- Beautiful Flowers and White That Became Him Well -- 1930. He Asked About the Quality -- They Should Have Cared -- The Mirror in the Hall -- 1931. According to Ancient Formulas of Grecosyrian Magi -- In the Year 200 B.C. -- 1932. Days of 1908 -- 1933. In the Suburbs of Antioch -- Early Poems. When, My Friends, I Was In Love -- Builders -- Bacchic -- A Love -- The Poet and the Muse -- Dunya Guzeli -- The Word and Silence -- Sham-El-Nessim -- Singer -- Vulnerant Omnes Ultima Necat -- Good and Bad Weather -- Elegy of the Flowers -- Melancholy Hours -- To the Moon -- The Inkwell -- Athena's Vote -- Timolaos the Syracusan -- Oedipus -- By the Open Window -- Ode and Elegy of the Roads -- In the House of the Soul -- There is a Blessed Joy -- Our Dearest White Youth -- Addition -- The Bank of the Future -- Death of the Emperor Tacitus -- The Tears of Phaeton's Sisters -- Ancient Tragedy -- Horace in Athens -- The Tarantinians Carouse -- Voice from the Sea -- Intervention of the Gods -- Artificial Flowers -- Unpublished Poems. Had You Loved Me -- To the Ladies -- Beizades to his Sweetheart -- The Nichori -- Correspondence According to Baudelaire -- Menkera's Daughter -- “Nous N'Osons Plus Chanter Les Roses” -- Indian Image -- Pelasgian Image -- The Hereafter -- The Mimiambi of Herodas -- Blue Eyes -- The Four Walls of My Room -- Alexandrian Merchant -- The Hospitality of Lagides -- In the Cemetery -- Night March of Priam -- Epitaph -- A Displeased Spectator -- Whoever Has Failed -- The Pawn -- Terror -- Rain -- Distinguishing Marks -- Eternity -- Confusion -- Forgetfulness -- Salome -- Chaldaic Image -- Julian at the Mysteries -- Bouquets -- Lohengrin -- Suspicion -- Death of a General -- King Claudius -- The Naval Battle -- When the Watchman Saw the Light -- The Enemies -- Theophilos Palaeologos -- Invigoration -- September 1903 -- December 1903 -- January 1904 -- On the Stairs -- At the Theater -- Inhabitants of Paestum -- The End of Antony -- June 27, 1906, 2:00 P.M. -- Hidden Things -- On Hearing of Love -- “Henceforth I Speak in Hades with the Dead” -- Thus -- Return from Greece -- Refugees -- And I Reclined and Lay Down on their Beds -- Half an Hour -- House with a Garden -- A Great Feast at the Home of Sosibios -- Simeon -- The Bandaged Shoulder -- Coins -- It was Seized -- From the Drawer.