c.p. cavafy – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:24:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 Cavafy reviewed in the Times /College/translation/threepercent/2009/04/20/cavafy-reviewed-in-the-times/ /College/translation/threepercent/2009/04/20/cavafy-reviewed-in-the-times/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:27:34 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2009/04/20/cavafy-reviewed-in-the-times/ U of R’s own reviewed a of Cavafy in the Times this weekend:

ĴýA Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.Ĵý With this sentence the novelist E. M. Forster introduced the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy to the English-speaking world in 1919. Since then, CavafyĴýs distinctive tone Ĵý wistfully elegiac but resolutely dry-eyed Ĵý has captivated English-language poets from W. H. Auden to James Merrill to Louise Glück. Auden maintained that CavafyĴýs tone seems always to Ĵýsurvive translation,Ĵý and Daniel MendelsohnĴýs new translations render that tone more pointedly than ever before. Together with ĴýThe Unfinished PoemsĴý (the first English translation of poems Cavafy was still drafting when he died in 1933), this ĴýCollected PoemsĴý not only brings us closer to one of the great poets of the 20th century; it also reinvigorates our relationship to the English language.

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