How Long to Read Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy

How Long Does it Take to Read Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy?

It takes the average reader 12 hours and 46 minutes to read Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy by C.P. Cavafy

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English, by the renowned critic, scholar, and international best-selling author of The Lost. No modern poet so vividly brought to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early-twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933). Whether advising Odysseus on his return to Ithaca or confronting the poet with the ghosts of his youth, these verses brilliantly make the historical personal—and vice versa. To his profound exploration of longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity, Cavafy brings the historian’s assessing eye along with the poet’s compassionate heart. After more than a decade of work and study, Mendelsohn—a classicist who alone among Cavafy’s translators shares the poet’s deep intimacy with the ancient world—gives readers full access to the genius of Cavafy’s verse: the sensuous rhymes, rich assonances, and strong rhythms of the original Greek that have eluded previous translators. Complete with the Unfinished Poems that Cavafy left in drafts when he died—a remarkable, hitherto unknown discovery that remained in the Cavafy Archive in Athens for decades—and with an in-depth introduction and a helpful commentary that situates each work in a rich historical, literary, and biographical context, this revelatory translation is a cause for celebration: the definitive presentation of Cavafy in English.

How long is Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy?

Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy by C.P. Cavafy is 754 pages long, and a total of 191,516 words.

This makes it 254% the length of the average book. It also has 234% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 17 hours and 26 minutes to read Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy aloud.

What Reading Level is Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy?

Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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