Onassis Cavafy Archive

REFERENCE CODE:

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GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S01-F02-SF003-0017 (2064)

TITLE:

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“C. P. Cavafy Poems (1916-1918)”

DATE(S):

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1926-1929

LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:

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Item

EXTENT AND MEDIUM:

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24.5 x 15.5 cm

NAME OF CREATOR(S):

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C. P. Cavafy

SCOPE AND CONTENT:

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Printed poetry collection by Cavafy, comprising bound broadsheets, printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house. It contains 28 poems and consists of 64 pages; inserted sheet with the poem titles in two columns and in chronological order. Numbering at top right of the recto of each sheet, rather than on each page. Some of the numbers have been corrected by hand. The poems are printed on different dates during the 1926-1929 period, and with fonts of various sizes. In one of the poems (“To Pleasure”, sheet 20) there is a handwritten addition in the third verse, while the fourth one has been crossed out. Five copies. One of them was donated to the Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies by the journalist Giannis Marinos, while it had originally been given by Cavafy to Dimitrios Charitatos (see letter in an envelope included in the copy). The inserted sheet of this copy contains the titles of three poems, handwritten.

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. Oxidations and wears.

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).

“Since Nine-” >Α162
“Comprehension” >Α153
“In the Presence of the Statue of Endymion” >Α581
“Envoys from Alexandria” >Α162
“Aristobulus” >Α159
“Caesarion” >Α160
“Nero’s Deadline” >Α158
“Safe Haven” >Α159
“One of Their Gods” >Α160
“Tomb of Lanes” >Α153
“Tomb of Iases”>Α147
“In a City of Osrhoene” >Α152
“Tomb of Ignatius” >Α160
“In the Month of Hathor” >Α147
“For Ammon, Who Died at 29 Years of Age, in 610” >Α160
“Aemilian Son of Monaës, an Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D.” >Α162
“Whenever They Are Aroused” >Α145
“To Pleasure” >Α164
“I’ve Gazed So Much-” >Α147
“In the Street” >Α160
“The Window of the Tobacco Shop” >Α249
“Passage” >Α160
“In Evening” >Α152
“Gray” >Α147
“Below the House” >Α163
“The Next Table” >Α163
“Remember, Body…” >Α153
“Days of 1903” >Α160