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Man with a Past.(Constantine Cavafy)(Critical essay)
Sometime before 1450 B.C. in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis, the pharaoh Thutmose III ordered a pair of obelisks. They were to be cut from red granite and erected at the Temple of the Rising Sun. Two hundred or so years later, Ramses II had them inscribed with boasts about his military triumphs. In 13 B.C., Augustus had the obelisks transported to Alexandria and installed at the Caesareum, Cleopatra's tribute to her husband, Mark Antony. There they stood sentry for another two thousand years, as the Caesareum and every subsequent building on that site got pulverized. By the time Napoleon entered Alexandria, in 1798, the obelisks--now known as Cleopatra's Needles--had ...
- A New Cavafy Is Born.(C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems and C. P. Cavafy: The...
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Corn, Alfred September 1, 2009 700+ words
C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems Translated, with introduction...Mendelsohn Knopf, 547 pages, $35. C. P. Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems Translated, with...James, Marcel Proust, and Constantine Cavafy--only one was a poet. Most people...
- Less is more: the poetics of omission in Cavafy's narratives.
- Magazine article from: Hollins Critic Whedon, Tony June 1, 1989 700+ words
Some of the sporadic attention C. P. Cavafy's works has received in this country over...wrote to an early English translation of Cavafy's poems. Yet, despite Auden's recognition, Cavafy remains largely unread in this country...
- "Telling the truth will give it a shape.": Christopher Hennessy converses with...
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Theoharis, Theoharis C. Hennessy, Christopher January 1, 2002 700+ words
Constantine P. Cavafy is widely regarded as the greatest of...font of influence for gay male poets. Cavafy, who lived most of his life in Alexandria...The Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy (Harcourt Brace, 2001) is the first...
- The Poetry and Poetics of Constantine P. Cavafy: Aesthetic Visions of Sensual...
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Savvas, Minas September 22, 1996 700+ words
...his notebook dated 13 December 1902, Cavafy wrote, "I do not know whether perversion...splendor." The fact that I (a student of Cavafy for thirty-some years) had never before...sought to defend in this study is that Cavafy wrestled defiantly with the seductive...
- Alexandria in Cavafy, Durrell, and Tsirkas.(Constantine Cavafy; Lawrence...
- Magazine article from: Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics Rodenbeck, John January 1, 2001 700+ words
...represented by Edmund Keeley's critical book, Cavafy's Alexandria, which condemns the city...were certainly not shared by Constantine Cavafy, who is repeatedly appealed to by Durrell...text as a kind of authority. Crucial in Cavafy's work is acceptance of the ordinary...
- C. P. Cavafy. I've Gazed So Much.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Raizis, M. Byron September 1, 2004 700+ words
C. P. Cavafy. I've Gazed So Much. George Economou...CRITICS IN GREECE usually present C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) as a philosophical poet...condition. Certainly, they do not ignore Cavafy's homosexuality and his homoerotic poems...
- Cavafy.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Newspaper article from: Small Press Bookwatch April 1, 2009 700+ words
Cavafy Alan L. Boegehold, translator Axios Press PO Box...can mean the difference between art and Engrish. "Cavafy: 166 Poems" is a new translation of the historical Greek poet Cavafy's important work in the field of poetry. Alan...
- The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation.(Brief article)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review March 22, 2007 700+ words
The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation. Aliki Barnstone...pages. ISBN 0-393-06142-6. C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933), whose works have influenced...Introduction the translator notes that Cavafy's work 'translates history, the record...
