The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy

A New Translation

By: C. P. Cavafy, Aliki Barnstone

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A new translation of a poet widely considered one of the most important of the twentieth century.C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has written some of the most powerful poems in history. His work uncannily translates history, the record of the many, into an individual personal document. Though Cavafy is wickedly satirical, many of his poems are located in a landscape of intimacy. Drawing on the spectrum of ancient Greek poetic tradition, his poetry is still internal, whether his speaker is a spoiled rich boy who plans to enter politics or a poor, ostracized, pure and beautiful young man destroyed by poverty and priggish social mores.In these glimmering and lyrical translations, with an introduction and scholarly endnotes cowritten with Willis Barnstone, Aliki Barnstone has been faithful to the original Greek, capturing both Cavafy's song and his vernacular in ways neglected in previous translations. Paying close attention to tone and diction, she has employed her well-tuned poet's ear, making Cavafy's verse breathe new music in English.

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Cavafy's simplicity, learning, pleasure in sex, tranquility in exile, have healed our anguish for over a century. . . . Cavafy's deeply cultured melancholy and praise of learning and the body flow unimpeded in Barnstone's translations.--Andrei Codrescu

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Foreword	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Introduction: C. P. Cavafy: Eros and History as Prophesy	p. xxix
1896
Julian at the Mysteries	p. 3
1897
Walls	p. 5
An Old Man	p. 6
The Horses of Achilles	p. 7
1898
Prayer	p. 8
The Funeral of Sarpedon	p. 9
1899
Candles	p. 11
The First Step	p. 12
1900
When the Watchman Saw the Light	p. 13
The Enemies	p. 14
1901
Che Fece...Il Gran Rifiuto	p. 15
The Souls of Old Men	p. 16
Interruption	p. 17
1903
The Windows	p. 18
Thermopylae	p. 19
Growing Strong	p. 20
1904
September, 1903	p. 21
December, 1903	p. 22
January, 1904	p. 23
On the Stairs	p. 24
At the Theater	p. 25
Disloyalty	p. 26
Waiting for the Barbarians	p. 28
Voices	p. 30
Desires	p. 31
1905
Trojans	p. 32
1906
King Dimitrios	p. 33
1907
Antony's Ending	p. 34
The Procession of Dionysos	p. 35
1908
Hidden Things	p. 36
Monotony	p. 37
1909
This Is the Man	p. 38
The Footsteps	p. 39
1910
The City	p. 40
The Satrapy	p. 41
1911
The Ides of March	p. 42
Finished	p. 43
A Sculptor from Tyana	p. 44
The God Abandons Antony	p. 45
Ionian	p. 46
The Glory of the Ptolemies	p. 47
Ithaka	p. 48
On Hearing of Love	p. 50
The Dangers	p. 51
1912
Philhellene	p. 52
Herodis Attikos	p. 53
Alexandrian Kings	p. 54
Come Back	p. 56
In Church	p. 57
1913
Very Rarely	p. 58
As Much as You Can	p. 59
For the Shop	p. 60
I Went	p. 61
"I Will Tell the Rest to Those Down in Hades"	p. 62
Like This	p. 63
1914
Exiles	p. 64
The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian	p. 65
The Tomb of Evrion	p. 66
Chandelier	p. 67
Far Off	p. 68
1915
The Wise Sense What Is to Come	p. 69
Theodotos	p. 70
At the Cafe Door	p. 71
He Swears	p. 72
As I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds	p. 73
One Night	p. 74
Morning Sea	p. 75
Drawn	p. 76
1916
Orofernis	p. 77
The Battle of Magnesia	p. 80
Manuel Komninos	p. 82
The Displeasure of the Selefkid	p. 83
When They Are Aroused	p. 85
In the Street	p. 86
Before the Statue of Endymion	p. 87
1917
In a City of Osroini	p. 88
Passing Through	p. 89
For Ammonis, Who Died at Twenty-nine, in 610	p. 90
One of Their Gods	p. 91
Evening	p. 92
Sensual Pleasure	p. 93
Gray	p. 94
The Tomb of Iasis	p. 95
In the Month of Athyr	p. 96
I Have Gazed So Long	p. 97
The Tomb of Ignatios	p. 98
House with Garden	p. 99
Days of 1903	p. 100
Half an Hour	p. 101
The Tobacco Shop Window	p. 102
1917 or 1918
Remember, Body...	p. 103
The Tomb of Lanis	p. 104
Meaning	p. 105
1918
Kaisarion	p. 106
Nero's Term	p. 108
Envoys from Alexandria	p. 109
Aristovoulos	p. 110
In the Port	p. 112
Aimilianos Monai, Alexandrian, 628-655 C.E.	p. 113
Since Nine O'Clock	p. 114
1919
Outside the House	p. 115
The Next Table	p. 116
The Bandaged Shoulder	p. 117
The Afternoon Sun	p. 118
Imenos	p. 119
Of the Jews (50 C.E.)	p. 120
To Stay	p. 121
Of Dimitrios Sotir (162-150 B.C.E.)	p. 122
On the Ship	p. 124
1920
If Truly Dead	p. 125
Young Men from Sidon (400 C.E.)	p. 127
So They Will Come	p. 129
Dareios	p. 130
Anna Komnini	p. 132
1921
A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses	p. 133
Their Beginning	p. 134
The Favor of Alexandros Valas	p. 135
The Melancholy of Iason Kleandros, Poet in Kommagini, 595 C.E.	p. 136
Dimaratos	p. 137
I Brought to Art	p. 139
From the School of the Celebrated Philosopher	p. 140
A Craftsman of Wine Bowls	p. 142
1922
Those Who Fought for the Achaian League	p. 143
To Antiohos Epifanis	p. 144
In an Old Book	p. 145
1923
In Despair	p. 146
From the Drawer	p. 147
Julian Seeing Indifference	p. 148
Epitaph of Antiohos, King of Kommagini	p. 149
Theater of Sidon (400 C.E.)	p. 150
1924
Julian in Nikomedia	p. 151
Before Time Changed Them-	p. 152
He Came to Read	p. 153
In Alexandria, 31 B.C.E.	p. 154
Ioannis Kantakouzinos Triumphs	p. 155
1925
Temethos, Antiochian, 400 C.E.	p. 156
Of Colored Glass	p. 157
The Twenty-fifth Year of His Life	p. 158
On an Italian Shore	p. 159
In the Boring Village	p. 160
Apollonios of Tyana in Rhodes	p. 161
1926
The Illness of Kleitos	p. 162
In a Township in Asia Minor	p. 163
The Priest of Serapeion	p. 164
In the Bars	p. 165
A Grand Procession of Priests and Laymen	p. 166
A Sophist Leaving Syria	p. 167
Julian and the Antiochians	p. 168
1927
Anna Dalassini	p. 169
Days of 1896	p. 170
Two Young Men, Twenty-three to Twenty-four Years Old	p. 171
Greek since Ancient Times	p. 173
Days of 1901	p. 174
1928
You Did Not Know	p. 175
A Young Man, an Artist of the Word, in His Twenty-fifth Year	p. 176
In Sparta	p. 177
Portrait of a Twenty-three-Year-Old Man, Painted by His Friend the Same Age, an Amateur	p. 178
In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C.E.	p. 179
A Prince from Western Libya	p. 181
Kimon, Son of Learhos, Twenty-two, Student of Greek Letters (in Kyrini)	p. 182
On the March to Sinopi	p. 184
Days of 1909, '10, and '11	p. 186
1929
Myris: Alexandria, 340 C.E.	p. 187
Alexandros Iannaios and Alexandra	p. 190
Beautiful White Flowers Became Him	p. 191
Come, O King of the Lacedaimonians	p. 193
In the Same Space	p. 194
1930
The Mirror in the Front Hall	p. 195
He Asked about the Quality	p. 196
They Should Have Cared	p. 198
1931
According to the Recipes of the Ancient Greco-Syrian Magicians	p. 200
In 200 B.C.E	p. 201
1932
Days of 1908	p. 203
1935
In the Suburbs of Antioch	p. 205
A Note on the Transliteration of Names	p. 207
Notes	p. 209
A Note on the Text, Selection, and Order of the Poems	p. 255
A Biographical Note on Cavafy	p. 257
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 260
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