Essential Cavafy (The Essential Poets Series)

By Edmund KeeleyEdmund KelleyConstantinos P. Cavafy, et al.

Book Overview

Cavafy's mythical world presents us with an image of the good life--the life of exquisite sensuality, refined tastes, and mixed faiths--that more often than not carries within it the ripening prospect of its own death; yet in his work there appears to be no other life more worthy of celebration.... As ironist and realist, his vision is readily translatable into the language of contemporary experience; and the commitment to hedonism, to political skepticism, and to honest self-awareness... anticipates the prevailing aura of our times.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880015160
• ISBN13: 9780880015165
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.6" x 6.5"