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...COMPLETE POEMS OF CAVAFY, translated by Rae Dalven, and POEMS, by George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner, brought to English readers the works of the two most highly thought of Greek poets of the 20th century. A Greek writer breathes the past; and perhaps because of this, both men are poets of defeat. The late C. P. Cavafy, whose Joycean audacity with language makes him the more difficult of the two to translate, takes the gloomier view. Seferis, who is Greek Ambassador to Britain, is a mystic who recognizes a man's fitful nobility...
...Complete Poems of Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven, and Poems, by George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner. The first book-length chance U.S. readers have had to become acquainted with the two greatest poets of 20th century Greece and with their timely and timeless sense of the past...
...Complete Poems of Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven, and Poems by George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner. The two finest Greek poets of the 20th century, in evocative translations that capture each writer's cruel sense of the past and timeless sense of man's fate...
...COMPLETE POEMS OF CAVAFY (234 pp.)-Translated by Rae Dalven-Harcourt, Brace & World...
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