The Canon

Cavafy was a poet of Alexandria, the city of his birth and his home throughout his adult life. This volume of 154 poems presents the entire body of work by Contantine Cavafy, considered a master of modern Greek poetry.

Autorentext

Constantine P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) was a major Greek poet who worked as a journalist and civil servant during his lifetime.

Klappentext

This volume comprises the entire body of work by the artist widely considered a master of modern Greek poetry. Published in the original Greek, with a new English translation by Stratis Haviaris on each facing page, and with a foreword by Seamus Heaney, this is Cavafy, familiar and fresh, seen through new eyes, yet instantly recognized.