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Before Time Could Change Them
Constantine Cavafy
其他書名
The Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy ; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Theoharis Constantine Theoharis
出版
Harcourt
, 2001
主題
Poetry / General
Poetry / European / General
ISBN
0151005192
9780151005192
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=G91nAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Since his death almost seventy years ago, C. P. Cavafy has come to be recognized as one of the greatest poets of modern times. Elegiac, deeply sensual, and able to plumb the heart with language of immense richness, Cavafy evokes the great lost classical world of the Mediterranean with unparalleled beauty. Much of his poetry deals with love, specifically homosexual love. It speaks of human passions, the experience common to all mankind of love offered, sought, and lost. His verse is beautiful and embracing, and remains as alive and sensuous as it was when he wrote it.
Theoharis Constantine Theoharis offers a new translation, one that presents Cavafy's work in the thematic order Cavafy wanted it published and emphasizes the tenderness and intensity of the love poems. Gore Vidal's foreword offers an explication of Cavafy's world, a valuable map for readers of what will be embraced as a signal volume of world poetry.
