C. P. Cavafy Selected Poems: Includes Historical Texts

A new translation that includes texts with the historical background of the poems, and tries to represent in English the feeling of the poems: Ideal and beloved voices of those who have died, or of those who are lost to us like the dead… Now and then in our dreams, they speak to us; now and then in our thoughts, the mind can hear them. And with their sound for a moment, they return, sounds from the first poetry of our life— like music, in the night, far away, that fades…