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Small selection of poems by the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy of Alexandria, Egypt, translated into Spanish (translator not identified). The title of the collection, "Memoria de las horas," is taken from a line in Cavafy's poem, "To Sensual Pleasure" as translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou see review of Sachperoglu's Collected poems of C.P. Cavafy (Oxford, 2007) by Charles Simic: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n06/charles-simic/some-sort-of-a-solution

This book contains 162 poems: the 154 canonical Collected Poems, presented by year and within each year's order of composition and/or first printing, plus seven of the Uncollected Poems interspersed chronologically among them. Only one of his rejected, early poems has been included, 'Ode and Elegy of the Street, ' used here as a kind of overture to the collection.
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• Foreword by Panagiotis Roilos and Demetrios Yatromanolakis
• Introduction
• Editor's note
• Bibliography
• Poems
• Notes
• Index of Greek titles
• Index of English titles
• General index.

C.P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. He was born, lived, and died in Alexandria (1863-1933), with brief periods spent in England, Constantinople, and Athens. Cavafy set in motion the most powerful modernism in early twentieth-century European poetry, exhibiting simple truths about eroticism, history, and philosophy - an inscrutable triumvirate that informs the Greek language and culture in all their diachrony. The Cavafy "Canon" plays with the complexities of ironic Socratic thought, suffused with the honesty of unadorned iambic verse. Based on a fifty-year continuous scholarly and literary interaction with Cavafy's poetry and its Greek and western European intertexts, John Chioles has produced an authoritative and exceptionally nuanced translation of the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy's Canon into English.
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This is the first appearance in English of important prose works by poet C. P. Cavafy. Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) is arguably the most important modern poet of Greece and Greek culture. Long a resident of Egypt and then Constantinople, Cavafy in his poems and prose works tended to focus on Greco-Roman antiquity, on Greece's national identity, and on personal and mythological images and themes including his ethnicity and sexual identity. He wrote some 150 poems, plus a few in collaboration with his brother John. His poetical works have been much translated and discussed, but until now, very little consideration has been given to his prose works, in part because many remained untranslated from the original Greek. This book collects Cavafy's more interesting prose pieces and translates those that originally appeared in Greek. Of the forty pieces included, only thirteen have previously appeared in print, and of those thirteen only a few were in English. The pieces include essays, 'prose poems', short stories, self-assessments, and considerations of other poets including John Keats. This significant new collection offers a different perspective on the well-known Cavafy.
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Constantine Cavafy is considered the greatest of modern Greek poets. His poems treat historical, philosophical, and erotic themes, sometimes altogether, and share a unique voice. This volume includes a translation that captures the style as well as the meaning of the Greek, and a foreword discussing Cavafy's distinctive values.
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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 understand", while precise moments of history are seen with a sense of foreboding, as in "Ides of March", "The God Abandoning Antony" and "Nero's Deadline". And in poems that draw on his own life and surroundings, Cavafy recalls illicit trysts or glimpses of beautiful young men in "One Night", "I have gazed so much" and "The Cafe Entrance", and creates exquisite miniatures of everyday life in "An Old Man" and "Of the Shop". This title is winner of the prestigious Harold Morton Landon Translation Award 2009.
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This volume of 154 poems by Contantine Cavafy is the entire body of work by the artist widely considered a master of modern Greek poetry. Published only privately during his lifetime, Cavafy's poems achieved international acclaim when writers such as E. M. Forster, Laurence Durrell, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden brought his work to a worldwide audience.Cavafy was a poet of Alexandria, the city of his birth and his home throughout his adult life. At the confluence of many histories - Greek, Egyptian, Byzantine, modern European - and many religions, the city provided endless inspiration for his brief, intimate portraits of individuals, historic and contemporary, real and imagined. Homoerotic desire, artistic longing, and a nostalgic fatalism suffuse the subjects he examined and laid bare, without metaphor or simile, in free iambic verse.Published here in the original Greek, with a new English translation by the noted poet Stratis Haviaris on each facing page, and with a foreword by Seamus Heaney, "The Canon" is Cavafy, familiar and fresh, seen through new eyes, yet instantly recognized: "the Greek gentleman in a straw hat, " as Forster called him, "standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe. ".
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'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery, whose religious, ethnic and cultural identities are blurred, and he was one of the pioneers in expressing a specifically homosexual sensibility. His poems present brief and vivid evocations of historical scenes and sensual moments, often infused with his distinctive sense of irony. They have established him as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of the 154 authorized poems ever published, together with a new English translation that conveys the accent and rhythm of Cavafy's individual tone of voice.
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• Introduction; Note on the Greek Text; Note on the Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of C. P. Cavafy; THE COLLECTED POEMS: POEMS 1910 [1897-1909]; Voices; Desires; Candles; An old man; Supplication; The souls of old men; The first step; Interruption; Thermopylae; Che fece . . . il gran rifiuto; The windows; [Trojans]; Walls; Waiting for the barbarians; [Monotony]; Perfidy; The funeral of Sarpedon; The horses of Achilles; [The retinue of Dionysus]; [King Demetrius]; [The footsteps]; [That is the Man]; POEMS (1905-1915); The city; Satrapy; Wise men; The ides of March

• FinishedThe god forsakes Antony; Theodotus; Monotony; Ithaca; As best you can; Trojans; King Demetrius; The glory of the Ptolemies; The retinue of Dionysus; The Battle of Magnesia; The displeasure of the Seleucid; Orophernes; Alexandrian kings; Philhellene; The footsteps; Herod Atticus; Sculptor of Tyana; Tomb of the grammarian Lysias; Tomb of Eurion; That is the Man; Perilous things; Manuel Comnenus; In church; Very seldom; Of the shop; Painted; Morning sea; Ionic; At the entrance of the café; One night; Come back; Far away; He vows; I went; Chandelier; POEMS (1916-1918); Since nine o'clock-

• PerceptionBefore the statue of Endymion; Envoys from Alexandria; Aristoboulos; Caesarion; Nero's term; In the harbour town; One of their gods; Tomb of Lanes; Tomb of lases; A town in Osroene; Tomb of Ignatius; In the month of Athyr; For Ammones, who died aged 29, in 610; Aemilianus Monaë, Alexandrian, A.D. 628-655; When they are roused; To sensual pleasure; So long I gazed-; In the street; The tobacconist's window; Passage; In the evening; Grey; Outside the house; The next table; Body, remember . . .; Days of 1903; POEMS 1919-1933; The afternoon sun; Has come to rest; Of the Hebrews (A.D. 50)

• ImenosOn the ship; Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 B.C.); If dead indeed; Young men of Sidon (A.D. 400); That they come-; Darius; Anna Comnena; A Byzantine Nobleman, in exile, composing verses; Their origin; The favour of Alexander Balas; Melancholy of Jason, son of Kleander, poet in Commagene, A.D. 595; Demaratus; I brought to Art; From the school of the renowned philosopher; Craftsman of craters; Those who fought for the Achaean League; To Antiochus Epiphanes; In an old book-; In despair; Julian, noticing negligence; Epitaph of Antiochus, king of Commagene; Theatre of Sidon (A.D. 400)

• Julian in NicomediaBefore they are changed by Time; He came to read-; In Alexandria, 31 B.C.; John Cantacuzenus prevails; Temethos, Antiochian, A.D. 400; Of coloured glass; The 25th year of his life; On an Italian shore; In the dreary village; Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes; Kleitos' illness; In a township of Asia Minor; A priest of the Serapeum; In the wine taverns-; A great procession of priests and laymen; Sophist leaving Syria; Julian and the Antiochians; Anna Dalassene; Days of 1896; Two young men, 23 to 24 years old; Greek since ancient times; Days of 1901; You didn't understand

• A young man of Letters
• in his 24th year

A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E.M. Forster E.M. Forster's description of C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery, whose religious, ethnic and cultural identities are blurred, and he was one of the pioneers in expressing a specifically homosexual sensibility. His poems present brief and vivid evocations of historical scenes and sensual moments, often infused with his distinctive sense of irony. They have established him as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of the 154 authorized poems ever published, together with a new English translation that conveys the accent and rhythm of Cavafy's individual tone of voice.