The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy, (Paperback)

from antiquary

Cavafy is one of the two or three greatest poets I know for writing poems that embody a past historic moment --historical fiction in verse, but very well done. He is especially good on Alexandria, where he lived, comparable to Durrell. He does include some homoerotic verse, on which Auden comment...

from antiquary

Cavafy is one of the two or three greatest poets I know for writing poems that embody a past historic moment --historical fiction in verse, but very well done. He is especially good on Alexandria, where he lived, comparable to Durrell. He does include some homoerotic verse, on which Auden comment...

from dbsovereign

Cavafy ranks up there for me just because, but he's also multi-layered. Read him at your peril - you might get smitten.

from Cacuzza

My only preference over this would be to have the bilingual version.

from DinadansFriend

To read a poet only in translation, is to suffer a great loss. In spite of the strong recommendation by W.H. Auden, at the beginning of this collection, I have always felt that. None the less, in the "Alexandria quartet" by Lawrence Durrell, the quotes seem so apposite that I acquired this collec...