Onassis Cavafy Archive

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GR-OF CA CA-SF03-F31-0001 (1925)

TITLE:

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“C. P. Cavafy Poems (1908-1914)”

DATE(S):

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1918-1921

LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:

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Item

EXTENT AND MEDIUM:

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24 x 16 cm

NAME OF CREATOR(S):

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C. P. Cavafy

SCOPE AND CONTENT:

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Cavafy’s poetry collection (Γ4). The title “C. P. Cavafy’s Poems (1908-1914)” on the cover and title page. The collection contains twenty-six poems and consists of bound broadsheets, printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house in the period 1918-1921, on papers of various qualities and with fonts of various sizes. On the verso of the title page, handwritten dedication by Cavafy to G. Afentoulis. Table of contents on the recto of the penultimate sheets. The verso of all sheets is blank. The sheets are numbered sequentially (“2” to “29”) at top right, usually in print and on one sheet corrected by Cavafy.

CONDITIONS GOVERNING REPRODUCTION:

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CC BY-SA 4.0 Cavafy Archive Onassis Foundation

LANGUAGE AND SCRIPT NOTES:

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Greek

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

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Writing in ink.

RELATED WORKS BY C. P. CAVAFY:

Reference to the works of C. P. Cavafy that are directly related to the described digital object, followed by their number of entry in the C. P. Cavafy Bibliography (ed. by D. Daskalopoulos).

“The City” >Α107
“The Satrapy” >Α108
“Ides of March” >Α111
“Finished” >Α112
“The God Abandons Antony” >Α116
“Monotony” >Α98
“Ithaca” >Α122
“As Much As You Can” >Α133
“The Glory of the Ptolemies” >Α121
“Alexandrian Kings” >Α129
“Philhellene” >Α127
“The Steps” >Α106
“Herodes Atticus” >Α125
“Sculptor from Tyana” >Α114
“The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian” >Α135
“Tomb of Eurion” >Α135
“That Is He” >Α104
“Dangerous” >Α123
“In the Church” >Α227
“Very Rarely” >Α132
“In Stock” >Α133
“Song of Ionia” >Α46
“Come Back” >Α131
“Far Off” >Α152
“Chandelier” >Α137
“I Went” >Α133

SUBJECTS:

Works by C. P. Cavafy:

"Sculptor from Tyana"

"Very Rarely"

"Tomb of Eurion"

"The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian"

"The Steps"

"The Satrapy"

"The God Abandons Antony"

"The Glory of the Ptolemies"

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Kasimatis & Ionas Press

CITATION:

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Cavafy, C. P.. “C. P. Cavafy Poems (1908-1914)”. Poems (collection), 1918-1921. GR-OF CA CA-SF03-F31-0001 (1925), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds (Post-2012 Acquisitions). From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF03-F31-0001.

DOI: 10.26256/ca-sf03-f31-0001

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