Onassis Cavafy Archive

REFERENCE CODE:

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GR-OF CA CA-SF03-F27-0003 (2104)

TITLE:

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“C. P. Cavafy Poems (1908-1914)”

DATE(S):

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1917-1920

LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:

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Item

EXTENT AND MEDIUM:

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25 x 16 cm

NAME OF CREATOR(S):

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C. P. Cavafy

SCOPE AND CONTENT:

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Poetry collection by Cavafy (Γ4) comprising 26 poems. Cover of paperboard and title page, both bearing the printed title “C. P. Cavafy Poems (1908-1914)”. 28 broadsheets follow, printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house in Alexandria in the period 1917-1920; one blank sheet. There is no table of contents or back cover. All sheets are loose and have a hole from a metal paperclip at the top left of the recto. Handwritten emendations by Cavafy in two poems and in the original numbering of many sheets.

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. Physical item wear: oxidations; holes.

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
“I Went” >Α133
“Chandelier” >Α137