Cavafy
September 6th, 2006 by Duplicator | Mail a friend
Cavafy in English and Greek side by side:
In the month Athyr, The Horses of Achilles, Perfidy, As much as you can & Finished
Cavafy Select Poems * Cavafy: IN 200 B.C., The windows, Ithaca, Waiting For The Barbarians, Che fece…Il gran rifiuto, The City, Thermopylae
A comment on Cavafy’s poem As Much As You Can, by Renos Apostolides (in Greek)
Daniel Mendelsohn, Cavafy - The Life of a Poet
P. Green, Cavafy - The supreme poet of nostalgia
Biography, Poems in English and (monotonic) Greek
Introduction to Cavafy poems, by W. H. Auden * C. P. Cavafy, A poet in history, by J. Epstein
Cavafy’s angst, by Ravi Vyas
Cavafy’s Ithaca recited by Sean Connery (music by Vangelis):
Cf. Elpenor’s Bilingual Cavafy * Cavafy Books
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
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Ah blessed one, dearest companion of the immortal Muses, fare thou well even in the house of Hades
Why were your poems so pregnant with melancholia?
I wish Cavafy lived, to answser your question. We can only guess - his life in Alexandria, a modern city with only a few Greeks, contrary to the past - I think he was feeling the passing of time, how people change, civilizations change, even Greece becomes a modern western country…. There are enough reasons, personal and cultural, for a sensitive soul to be melancholic… Even the homosexuality of Cavafy added to this - a condition disdained by society, with relationships that only very seldom last long, etc.