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This full-length theoretical examination of Constantine Cavafy breaks the study of this great Greek poet free from the narrow context of traditional scholarship and introduces the latest critical developments into the study of Greek poetry.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Cavafy, Constantine, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Cavafy, C. P. --- Cavafy, Constantine P., --- Kavafis, Konstantin, --- Cavafis, Constantinos, --- Kavaphēs, Kōnstantinos Petrou, --- Kavafis, Konstantinos Petrou, --- Kavafis, Constantino, --- Kavafis, --- Kavafis, Konstandinos, --- Kavaphēs, K. P. --- Kavafis, K. P. --- Cavafy, Constantin, --- Kavafis, Konstantino, --- Kawafis, --- Cavafis, C. P., --- Kavafy, Konstantine, --- Καβάφης, Κωνσταντίνος, --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.

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During his sojourn in England during the 1870's, a young Cavafy found himself enthralled by the aesthetic movement of cosmopolitan London. It was during these years that he encountered the canvases and personalities of Pre-Raphaelite painters, including Burne-Jones and Whistler, as well as works of aesthetic writers who were effecting a revolution in British literary culture and channeling influences from France that would gradually coalesce into an international decadent movement. In Reframing Decadence Peter Jeffreys returns us to this critical period of Cavafy's life, showing the poet's creative indebtedness to British and French avant-garde aesthetes whose collective impact on his poetry proved to be profound. In the process, Jeffreys offers a critical reappraisal of Cavafy's relation to Victorian aestheticism and French literary decadence. Foremost among the tropes of decadence that captivated Cavafy were the decline of imperial Rome, the rise of Christianity, and the lingering twilight of Byzantium. The influence of Walter Pater on Cavafy's view of classical and late-antique history was immense, inflected as it was with an unapologetic homoerotic aesthetic that Cavafy would adopt as his own, making Pater's imaginary portraits an important touchstone for his own historicizing poetry. Cavafy would move beyond Pater to explore a more openly homoerotic sensuality but he never quite abandoned this rich Victorian legacy, one that contributed greatly to his emergence as a global poet. Jeffreys concludes by considering Cavafy's current popularity as a gay poet and his curious relation to kitsch as manifest in his ongoing popularity via translation and visual media.

Decadence in literature. --- Cavafy, Constantine, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Cavafy, C. P. --- Cavafy, Constantin --- Kavafis, K. P. --- Kavafis, Konstantin --- Cavafy, Constantine P. --- Cavafis, Constantinos --- Kavaphēs, Kōnstantinos Petrou --- Kavafis, Konstantinos Petrou --- Kavafis, Constantino --- Kavafis --- Kavafis, Konstandinos --- Kavaphēs, K. P. --- Kavafis, Konstantino --- Kawafis, --- Cavafis, C. P. --- Kavafy, Konstantine --- Καβάφης, Κωνσταντίνος

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877.4 "19" KAVAFIS, KONSTANTINOS P. --- Nieuwgriekse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--KAVAFIS, KONSTANTINOS P. --- Cavafy, Constantine --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Cavafy, Constantine, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 877.4 "19" KAVAFIS, KONSTANTINOS P. Nieuwgriekse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--KAVAFIS, KONSTANTINOS P. --- 877.4 "19" KAVAFIS, KONSTANTINOS P --- Nieuwgriekse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--KAVAFIS, KONSTANTINOS P --- Cavafy, C. P. --- Cavafy, Constantine P., --- Kavafis, Konstantin, --- Cavafis, Constantinos, --- Kavaphēs, Kōnstantinos Petrou, --- Kavafis, Konstantinos Petrou, --- Kavafis, Constantino, --- Kavafis, --- Kavafis, Konstandinos, --- Kavaphēs, K. P. --- Kavafis, K. P. --- Cavafy, Constantin, --- Kavafis, Konstantino, --- Kawafis, --- Cavafis, C. P., --- Kavafy, Konstantine, --- Καβάφης, Κωνσταντίνος, --- Cavafy, Constantin --- Kavafis, Konstantin --- Cavafy, Constantine P. --- Cavafis, Constantinos --- Kavaphēs, Kōnstantinos Petrou --- Kavafis, Konstantinos Petrou --- Kavafis, Constantino --- Kavafis --- Kavafis, Konstandinos --- Kavafis, Konstantino --- Cavafis, C. P. --- Kavafy, Konstantine --- Καβάφης, Κωνσταντίνος

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C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is now considered by many to be the most original and influential Greek poet of this century. The qualities of his poetry that were unfashionable during his lifetime are the very ones that make his work endure: his sparing use of metaphor; his evocation of spoken rhythms and colloquialisms; his use of epigrammatic and dramatic modes; his aesthetic perfectionism; his frank treatment of homosexual themes; his brilliantly alive sense of history; and his commitment to Hellenism, coupled with an astute cynicism about politics. The translations in Selected Poems are completely new. Realizing that Cavafy's language is closer to the spoken idiom than that of other leading Greek poets of his time, and that earlier translations have failed to capture the immediate, colloquial qualities of Cavafy's voice, Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard have rendered his most significant and characteristic poems in a style and rhythm as natural and apt in English as the poet's is in Greek.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933 -- Translations into English. --- Greek poetry, Modern -- Translations into English. --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Cavafy, Constantine, --- Cavafy, Constantine --- Translations into English. --- Cavafy, C. P. --- Cavafy, Constantine P., --- Kavafis, Konstantin, --- Cavafis, Constantinos, --- Kavaphēs, Kōnstantinos Petrou, --- Kavafis, Konstantinos Petrou, --- Kavafis, Constantino, --- Kavafis, --- Kavafis, Konstandinos, --- Kavaphēs, K. P. --- Kavafis, K. P. --- Cavafy, Constantin, --- Kavafis, Konstantino, --- Kawafis, --- Cavafis, C. P., --- Kavafy, Konstantine, --- Καβάφης, Κωνσταντίνος, --- Translations into English --- Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933 --- Greek poetry, Modern --- POETRY / European / General. --- Modern Greek poetry --- Greek literature, Modern --- Sexual minorities in literature. --- Cavafy, Constantine, - 1863-1933 - Translations into English --- Cavafy, Constantine, - 1863-1933

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This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Delving into travel writing, ecocriticism, translation and allusion, it offers a fresh comparative link between Greek modernity and Irish poetry that counterbalances the preeminence of Greek antiquity in existing criticism. The first section, devoted to travel and landscape, examines Mahon’s modern perception of the Aegean, inspired by his travels to the Cyclades between 1974 and 1997, as well as Heaney’s philhellenic relationship with mainland Greece between 1995 and 2004. The second section offers a close analysis of their C. P. Cavafy translations, and compares George Seferis’ original texts with their creative rendition in the writings of the Irish poets. The book will appeal to readers of poetry as well as those interested in the interactions between Ireland and Greece, two countries at the extreme points of Europe, in times of crisis.

Literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Poetry. --- European literature. --- British literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- European Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Poetry and Poetics. --- Comparative Literature. --- European literature --- Literature --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- 20th century. --- History and criticism --- Philosophy --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- English poetry --- Irish authors --- History and criticism. --- Heaney, Seamus, --- Mahon, Derek, --- Cavafy, Constantine, --- Seferis, George, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Sepherēs, Geōrgos, --- Σεφερης, Γεωργος, --- Seferiadis, George, --- Sepherēs, Giōrgos, --- Σεφερης, Γιωργος, --- Sepheris, Giorgos, --- Seferis, Jorge, --- Séféris, Georges, --- Seferis, Yorgos, --- Seferis, Giorgos, --- Seferiadis, Giorgos, --- Seferis, Iorgos, --- Seféris, Jiórgos, --- Sepheriadēs, Geōrgios, --- Σεφεριαδης, Γεωργιος, --- Seferis, Giorgio, --- Szeferisz, Jorgosz, --- Seferisu, Yorugosu, --- Seferis, Georgios, --- Seferis, Ghiorghios, --- Seferis, Jorgos, --- ספריס, גיאורגוס --- Sepheriadēs, Giōrgos, --- Σεφεριαδης, Γιωργος, --- Trelos, Ignatēs, --- Cavafy, C. P. --- Cavafy, Constantine P., --- Kavafis, Konstantin, --- Cavafis, Constantinos, --- Kavaphēs, Kōnstantinos Petrou, --- Kavafis, Konstantinos Petrou, --- Kavafis, Constantino, --- Kavafis, --- Kavafis, Konstandinos, --- Kavaphēs, K. P. --- Kavafis, K. P. --- Cavafy, Constantin, --- Kavafis, Konstantino, --- Kawafis, --- Cavafis, C. P., --- Kavafy, Konstantine, --- Καβάφης, Κωνσταντίνος, --- Chēny, Seimous, --- Khini, Sheĭmas, --- Heaney, Seamus --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature, Modern—20th century.