Complete Poems

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
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Introduction, notes, commentary, and translation copyright © 2009, 2012
by Daniel Mendelsohn

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C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
and
C. P. Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems
were originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Knopf in 2009.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cavafy, Constantine, 1863–1933.

[Poems. English]
Collected poems / C.P. Cavafy ; translated, with inroduction and commentary, by Daniel Mendelsohn.
p. cm.
“This is a Borzoi book.”
eISBN: 978-0-307-95951-5
1. Cavafy, Constantine, 1863–1933—Translations into English.
I. Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960–  II. Title.
PA5610.K2A23 2012
889’.132—dc23
2011045618

Cover design by Jason Booher

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Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction: The Poet-Historian

A Note on Pronunciation of Proper Names