Selected Poems by C. P. Cavafy

C. P. Cavafy; Edmund Keeley (Translator); Philip Sherrard (Translator)

C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is now considered by many to be the most original and influential Greek poet of this century. The qualities of his poetry that were unfashionable during his lifetime are the very ones that make his work endure: his sparing use of metaphor; his evocation of spoken rhythms and coll...