The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy. Daniel Mendelsohn

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      C. P. CAVAFY

       Complete Poems

      TRANSLATED,

      WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY,

      BY

      DANIEL MENDELSOHN

      CONTENTS

       Title Page

       Introduction: The Poet-Historian

       A Note on Pronunciation of Proper Names

       I: PUBLISHED POEMS

       Poems 1905–1915

       The City

       The Satrapy

       But Wise Men Apprehend What Is Imminent

       Ides of March

       Finished

       The God Abandons Antony

       Theodotus

       Monotony

       Ithaca

       As Much As You Can

       Trojans

       King Demetrius

       The Glory of the Ptolemies

       The Retinue of Dionysus

       The Battle of Magnesia

       The Seleucid’s Displeasure

       Orophernes

       Alexandrian Kings

       Philhellene

       The Steps

       Herodes Atticus

       Sculptor from Tyana

       The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian

       Tomb of Eurion

       That Is He

       Dangerous

       Manuel Comnenus

       In the Church

       Very Rarely

       In Stock

       Painted

       Morning Sea

       Song of Ionia

       In the Entrance of the Café

       One Night

       Come Back

       Far Off

       He Swears

       I Went

       Chandelier

       Poems 1916–1918

       Since Nine—

       Comprehension

       In the Presence of the Statue of Endymion

       Envoys from Alexandria

       Aristobulus

       Caesarion

       Nero’s Deadline

       Safe Haven

       One of Their Gods

       Tomb of Lanes

       Tomb of Iases