Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Greek Text -- Note on the Translation -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of C. P. Cavafy -- THE COLLECTED POEMS: POEMS 1910 [1897-1909] -- Voices -- Desires -- Candles -- An old man -- Supplication -- The souls of old men -- The first step -- Interruption -- Thermopylae -- Che fece . . . il gran rifiuto -- The windows -- [Trojans] -- Walls -- Waiting for the barbarians -- [Monotony] -- Perfidy -- The funeral of Sarpedon -- The horses of Achilles -- [The retinue of Dionysus] -- [King Demetrius] -- [The footsteps] -- [That is the Man] -- POEMS (1905-1915) -- The city -- Satrapy -- Wise men -- The ides of March -- Finished -- The god forsakes Antony -- Theodotus -- Monotony -- Ithaca -- As best you can -- Trojans -- King Demetrius -- The glory of the Ptolemies -- The retinue of Dionysus -- The Battle of Magnesia -- The displeasure of the Seleucid -- Orophernes -- Alexandrian kings -- Philhellene -- The footsteps -- Herod Atticus -- Sculptor of Tyana -- Tomb of the grammarian Lysias -- Tomb of Eurion -- That is the Man -- Perilous things -- Manuel Comnenus -- In church -- Very seldom -- Of the shop -- Painted -- Morning sea -- Ionic -- At the entrance of the café -- One night -- Come back -- Far away -- He vows -- I went -- Chandelier -- POEMS (1916-1918) -- Since nine o'clock- -- Perception -- Before the statue of Endymion -- Envoys from Alexandria -- Aristoboulos -- Caesarion -- Nero's term -- In the harbour town -- One of their gods -- Tomb of Lanes -- Tomb of lases -- A town in Osroene -- Tomb of Ignatius -- In the month of Athyr -- For Ammones, who died aged 29, in 610 -- Aemilianus Monaë, Alexandrian, A.D. 628-655 -- When they are roused -- To sensual pleasure -- So long I gazed- -- In the street -- The tobacconist's window -- Passage -- In the evening -- Grey -- Outside the house.

The next table -- Body, remember . . . -- Days of 1903 -- POEMS 1919-1933 -- The afternoon sun -- Has come to rest -- Of the Hebrews (A.D. 50) -- Imenos -- On the ship -- Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 B.C.) -- If dead indeed -- Young men of Sidon (A.D. 400) -- That they come- -- Darius -- Anna Comnena -- A Byzantine Nobleman, in exile, composing verses -- Their origin -- The favour of Alexander Balas -- Melancholy of Jason, son of Kleander, poet in Commagene, A.D. 595 -- Demaratus -- I brought to Art -- From the school of the renowned philosopher -- Craftsman of craters -- Those who fought for the Achaean League -- To Antiochus Epiphanes -- In an old book- -- In despair -- Julian, noticing negligence -- Epitaph of Antiochus, king of Commagene -- Theatre of Sidon (A.D. 400) -- Julian in Nicomedia -- Before they are changed by Time -- He came to read- -- In Alexandria, 31 B.C. -- John Cantacuzenus prevails -- Temethos, Antiochian, A.D. 400 -- Of coloured glass -- The 25th year of his life -- On an Italian shore -- In the dreary village -- Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes -- Kleitos' illness -- In a township of Asia Minor -- A priest of the Serapeum -- In the wine taverns- -- A great procession of priests and laymen -- Sophist leaving Syria -- Julian and the Antiochians -- Anna Dalassene -- Days of 1896 -- Two young men, 23 to 24 years old -- Greek since ancient times -- Days of 1901 -- You didn't understand -- A young man of Letters - in his 24th year -- In Sparta -- Portrait of a 23-year-old man, painted by a friend of the same age, an amateur artist -- In a large Greek colony, 200 B.C. -- The potentate from Western Libya -- Kimon, son of Learchos, 22 years old, student of Greek letters (in Cyrene) -- On the march to Sinope -- Days of 1909, '10 and '11 -- Myres: Alexandria, A.D. 340 -- Alexander Jannaeus, and Alexandra.

Lovely flowers and white such as befitted well -- Come, O king of the Lacedaemonians -- In the same space -- The mirror in the entrance -- He was asking about the quality- -- If only they had seen to it -- According to the recipes of ancient Greco-Syrian magicians -- In the year 200 B.C. -- Days of 1908 -- In the outskirts of Antioch -- Explanatory Notes -- Glossary -- Chronological List of Poems -- Index of Greek Titles -- Index of English Titles -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of Cavafy's 154 authorized poems ever to be published, together with a new English translation that conveys the accent and rhythm of the poet's individual tone of voice.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.