C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. (Revised ed.)
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C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. Here is an extensively revised edition of the acclaimed translations of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, which capture Cavafy's mixture of formal and idiomatic use of language and preserve the immediacy of his frank treatment of homosexual themes, his brilliant re-creation of history, and his astute political ironies. The resetting of the entire edition has permitted the translators to review each poem and to make alterations where appropriate. George Savidis has revised the notes according to his latest edition of the Greek text. About the first edition: "The best [English version] we are likely to see for some time."—James Merrill, The New York Review of Books "[Keeley and Sherrard] have managed the miracle of capturing this elusive, inimitable, unforgettable voice. It is the most haunting voice I know in modern poetry."—Walter Kaiser, The New Republic The New York Times - James Longenbach Auden maintained that Cavafy's tone seems always to "survive translation," and Daniel Mendelsohn's new translations render that tone more pointedly than ever before…this Collected Poems not only brings us closer to one of the great poets of the 20th century; it also reinvigorates our relationship to the English language.
Introduction: The Poet—Historian A Note on Pronunciation of Proper Names iPUBLISHED POEMSPoems 1905—1915The City The Satrapy But Wise Men Apprehend What Is Imminent Ides of March Finished The God Abandons Antony Theodotus Monotony Ithaca As Much As You Can Trojans King Demetrius The Glory of the Ptolemies The Retinue of Dionysus The Battle of Magnesia The Seleucid’s Displeasure Orophernes Alexandrian Kings Philhellene The Steps Herodes Atticus Sculptor from Tyana The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian Tomb of Eurion That Is He Dangerous Manuel Comnenus In the Church Very Rarely In Stock Painted Morning Sea Song of Ionia In the Entrance of the Café One Night Come Back Far Off He Swears I Went Chandelier Poems 1916—1918Since Nine– Comprehension In the Presence of the Statue of Endymion Envoys from Alexandria Aristobulus Caesarion Nero’s Deadline Safe Haven One of Their Gods Tomb of Lanes Tomb of Iases In a City of Osrhoene Tomb of Ignatius In the Month of Hathor For Ammon, Who Died at 29 Years of Age, in 610 Aemilian Son of Monaës, an Alexandrian, 628—655 A.D. Whenever They Are Aroused To Pleasure I’ve Gazed So Much– In the Street The Window of the Tobacco Shop Passage In Evening Gray Below the House The Next Table Remember, Body Days of 1903 Poems1919—1933The Afternoon Sun To Stay Of the Jews (50 A.D.) Imenus Aboard the Ship Of Demetrius Soter (162—150 B.C.) If Indeed He Died Young Men of Sidon (400 A.D.) That They Come– Darius Anna Comnena Byzantine Noble, in Exile, Versifying Their Beginning Favour of Alexander Balas Melancholy of Jason, Son of Cleander: Poet in Commagene: 595 A.D. Demaratus I Brought to Art From the School of the Renowned Philosopher Maker of Wine Bowls Those Who Fought on Behalf of the Achaean League For Antiochus Epiphanes In an Old Book In Despair Julian, Seeing Indifference Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Commagene Theater of Sidon (400 A.D.) Julian in Nicomedia Before Time Could Alter Them He Came to Read– The Year 31 B.C. in Alexandria John Cantacuzenus Triumphs Temethus, an Antiochene: 400 A.D. Of Colored Glass The 25th Year of His Life On the Italian Seashore In the Boring Village Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes Cleitus’s Illness In a Municipality of Asia Minor Priest of the Serapeum In the Taverns A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen Sophist Departing from Syria Julian and the Antiochenes Anna Dalassene Days of 1896 Two Young Men, 23 to 24Years Old Greek Since Ancient Times Days of 1901 You Didn’t Understand AYoung Man, Skilled in the Art of the Word–in His 24th Year In Sparta Portrait of a Young Man of Twenty-Three Done by His Friend of the Same Age, an Amateur In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C. Potentate from Western Libya Cimon Son of Learchus, 22 Years Old, Teacher of Greek Letters (in Cyrene) On the March to Sinope Days of 1909, ’10, and ’11 Myres: Alexandria in 340 A.D. Alexander Jannaeus, and Alexandra Beautiful, White Flowers As They Went So Well Come Now, King of the Lacedaemonians In the Same Space The Mirror in the Entrance He Asked About the Quality– Should Have Taken the Trouble According to the Formulas of Ancient Greco-Syrian Magicians In 200 B.C. Days of 1908 On the Outskirts of Antioch Poems Published 1897—1908Contents of the Sengopoulos Notebook Voices Longings Candles An Old Man Prayer Old Men’s Souls The First Step Interruption Thermopylae Che Fece . . . Il Gran Rifiuto The Windows Walls Waiting for the Barbarians Betrayal The Funeral of Sarpedon The Horses of Achilles iiREPUDIATED POEMS(1886—1898)Brindisi The Poet and the Muse Builders Word and Silence Sham-el-Nessim Bard Vulnerant Omnes, Ultima Necat Good and Bad Weather Timolaus the Syracusan Athena’s Vote The Inkwell Sweet Voices Elegy of the Flowers Hours of Melancholy Oedipus Ode and Elegy of the Streets Near an Open Window A Love Remembrance The Death of the Emperor Tacitus The Eumenides’ Footfalls The Tears of Phaëthon’s Sisters Ancient Tragedy Horace in Athens Voice from the Sea The Tarentines Have Their Fun The Funeral of Sarpedon iiiUNPUBLISHED POEMS(1877?—1923)The Beyzade to His Lady-Love Dünya Güzeli When, My Friends, I Was in Love . . . Nichori Song of the Heart To Stephanos Skilitsis Correspondences According to Baudelaire [Fragment of an untitled poem] “Nous N’osons Plus Chanter les Roses” Indian Image Pelasgian Image The Hereafter The Mimiambs of Herodas Azure Eyes The Four Walls of My Room Alexandrian Merchant The Lagid’s Hospitality In the Cemetery Priam’s March by Night Epitaph Displeased Theatregoer Before Jerusalem Second Odyssey He Who Fails The Pawn Dread In the House of the Soul Rain La Jeunesse Blanche Distinguishing Marks Eternity Confusion Salome Chaldean Image Julian at the Mysteries The Cat The Bank of the Future Impossible Things Addition Garlands Lohengrin Suspicion Death of a General The Intervention of the Gods King Claudius The Naval Battle When the Watchman Saw the Light The Enemies Artificial Flowers Strengthening September of 1903 December 1903 January of 1904 On the Stairs In the Theatre Poseidonians The End of Antony 27 June 1906, 2 P.M. Hidden Hearing of Love “The Rest Shall I Tell in Hades to Those Below” That’s How Homecoming from Greece Fugitives Theophilus Palaeologus And I Got Down and I Lay There in Their Beds Half an Hour House with Garden A Great Feast at the House of Sosibius Simeon The Bandaged Shoulder Coins It Was Taken From the Drawer Prose PoemsThe Regiment of Pleasure Ships Clothes Poems Written in English[More Happy Thou, Performing Member] Leaving Therápia Darkness and Shadows Notes Further Reading Acknowledgments Index of Titles
