Passions and Ancient Days (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Konstantionos Petrou Kabaphes
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, Poetry or poets, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Greece or Greek people, Rome, Arts or crafts, Hellenism, Erotica
Critical Evaluation:
The works of Constantine Cavafy were not published during the poet’s lifetime. At least, they cannot be said to have been published in the conventional sense. Frequently revising his early poems and suppressing those that he thought were inferior, Cavafy shared much of his poetry with only his closest friends, often distributing his works in the form of privately printed broadsides, pamphlets, or small volumes. At the time of his death of cancer at the age of seventy, the poet left behind sixty-eight poems arranged thematically in two small books, a...
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