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  • The Selected Poems of Cavafy

    by C. P. Cavafy ...
    Translated by Avi Sharon ...
    C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria’s ancient past. Figures from antiquity speak with telling interruptions from the author in such poems as ‘Anna Comnena’ and ‘You did not ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy

    by C.P. Cavafy ...
    Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn ...
    An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English, by the renowned critic, scholar, and international best-selling author of The Lost.No ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • C. P. Cavafy

    Collected Poems, Revised Edition

    by C. P. Cavafy ...
    Translated by Edmund Keeley, Philip Sherrard ...
    Series series The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
    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 ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • C. P. Cavafy

    Collected Poems - Bilingual Edition

    by C. P. Cavafy, Robert Pinsky ...
    Translated by Edmund Keeley, Philip Sherrard ...
    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.This revised bilingual edition of Collected Poems offers the reader the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • C. P. Cavafy Selected Poems

    A New Translation: Includes Historical Texts

    by C.P. Cavafy, Babis Danias ...
    The most influential poet you haven't read yet — and the one your favourite writers never stopped quoting.A voice of longing, loss, and living history — reborn in vivid, poetic English. Cavafy's work has influenced generations of readers and writers, standing as one of the most distinctive voices in modern Greek literature. Cited by W. H. Auden, beloved by Lawrence Durrell, and taught in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Poetry of Sex, The

    Humanities greatest pleasure described by humanities greatest writers

    by Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman, Robert Browning, Aleister Crowley, Aleister Crowley, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Charles Baudelaire, Daniel Sheehan, Daniel Sheehan0, Amy Lowell1, Amy Lowell2, Hafiz3, Sir Charles Sedley4, D H Lawrence5, Hart Crane6, Abu Nuwas7, William Shakespeare8, C P Cavafy9, Paul Verlaine & Aruthur Rimbaud0, Catallus1, A. E. Housman2 ...
    Narrated by Robert Maskell3, Ghizela Rowe4, David Shaw-Parker5 ...

    Unabridged

    Sex. It’s a difficult subject. Full of taboos and embarrassment, subject to boundaries and yet hidden from view in our homes. Well, mostly.This very intimate act in modern times has taken on a transparency as it is widely discussed at dinner tables and public forums, and information on every kink and foible is easily obtainable and exchangeable in the 24/7 online universe.But in more classic times ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Constantine P. Cavafy. Poems

    by Manolis Aligizakis ...
    Translations, like everything else, wear out over time, as language, and those who read or use it, change. With a poet like Cavafy, who was so precisely tuned to the idiom of his peers, it is even more important to update the English versions of his poems frequently, so that they have the same immediate resonance with the times as the originals had with their time. This is, of course, an ... Read more

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  • World Of Rome

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