The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy

The complete Cavafy poems including the unfinished works in a stunning new translation. From the acclaimed author of The Lost, a translation that scales new heights in modern poetic rendering. With a masterful eye for irony and an ear for the music of Cavafys form, Daniel Mendelsohns translation brings to English the poet who won acclaim from generations of writers, E.M. Forster and T.S. Eliot among them. Spanning the fall of Homeric heroes to the rise of the modern world, Cavafys poetry collapses the spectra of time, geography and age into intimately personal elegies. Works such as "Waiting for the Barbarians" and Ithica, famed for their revival of the ancient worlds, continue to address the modern reader in terms of timeless relevance. Here they are accompanied by Cavafys unfinished poems, translated into English for the first time. From a highly respected classicist and social essayist, Daniel Mendelsohns edition is uniquely placed to become the fresh, definitive edition of Cavafy in English.