- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd; New edition edition (26 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0715629913
- ISBN-13: 978-0715629918
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,872,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Constantine Cavafy, though considered one of the foremost modern Greek poets, has only recently begun to gain widespread recognition in this country. He was admired by T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster and W.H. Auden and appeared as the unnamed 'old poet of the city' in Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet". New translations continue to be publihsed as succeeding generations of scholars attempt to capture the deceptively simple and penetrating charm of Cavafy's work. This reissue of Robert Liddell's first biography of the poet has been updated for students and poetry lovers alike.
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Robert Liddell lived and worked for some years in Alexandria. He published a fictional portrait of Cavafy titled Unreal City before beginning work on this biography.
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Wonderful biography
22 April 2006
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This biography of Cavafy is very informative and interesting. It presents the poet's life in a vivid and concise way, without burdening the reader with too much unnecessary information. It's comparable to Costas Montis' great autobiographical novel Afentis Batistas in the sense that they both talk about the lives of two remarkable Greek poets of the 20th century, Cavafy and Montis, very similar in their technique and style. I have also been reading Seferis' biography, which is interesting but a little too long and detailed.
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