Cavafy Poems (English)

Cavafy Poems (English) Free App

Rated 4.36/5 (11) —  Free Android application by Nick Hatzigeorgiu

About Cavafy Poems (English)

The poems of the Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 – 1933). Includes English translations and Greek originals.


If you only need the Greek poems you can download the following application (smaller in size):

market://details?id=gr.hatzigeorgiu.cavafy

http://market.android.com/details?id=gr.hatzigeorgiu.cavafy


Constantine P. Cavafy, also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, or Kavaphes (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης) (April 29, 1863 – April 29, 1933) was a renowned Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant.

He is now considered one of the finest European and modern Greek poets. His poetry is taught at schools in mainland Greece and Cyprus, and at universities around the world.

E.M. Forster knew him personally and wrote a memoir of him, contained in his book "Alexandria". Forster, Arnold Toynbee, and T.S. Eliot were among the earliest promoters of Cavafy in the English-speaking world before the Second World War.

In the panorama of twentieth century poetry, Cavafis' work occupies a special place. Dark, lonely to the limit of self-segregation, but at the same time attracted by the Mediterranean vitality and openness, the neo-Hellenic poet refuses en block every aspect of his time, diving instead, with constant wonder, into the suggestions of mythological legends and ancient history.

The result of this literary operation is the continuous, desperate search for a mysterious and elusive Beauty, an evocation of hidden moments and loves sung now with violently sensual accents, now with heartfelt and nostalgic tones, mixed with a tragic vision of history as eternal struggle between men and destiny.

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What are users saying about Cavafy Poems (English)

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Thank you for this contribution to world's culture!... Bravo!

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You rock , not only for the releasing this but for the app being unobtrusive as well.

M70%
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As much as we need to give praise for the cultural value of this app, it is hard to understand why the developer did not think of linking original poems to their translations. Impossible to read one next to the other or to toggle between the two versions. Even the concepts 'next' and 'previous' seem to be unknown to the developer. A child would have done a better job.

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As much as we need to give praise for the cultural value of this app, it is hard to understand why the developer did not think of linking original poems to their translations. Impossible to read one next to the other or to toggle between the two versions. Even the concepts 'next' and 'previous' seem to be unknown to the developer. A child would have done a better job.

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Thank you for this contribution to world's culture!... Bravo!

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You rock , not only for the releasing this but for the app being unobtrusive as well.


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