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It is very striking that all of Cavafy's sixteen extant Byzantine poems reached their final form ( though not , in many cases , a definitive form ) in the period 1914-1927 , and that only two of them ...
It is very striking that all of Cavafy's sixteen extant Byzantine poems reached their final form ( though not , in many cases , a definitive form ) in the period 1914-1927 , and that only two of them ...
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We do not know when it was first drafted , but it had probably had a relatively short gestation period , since it does not figure in the surviving lists of work - in - progress associated with the “ unfinished ” poems - lists which ...
We do not know when it was first drafted , but it had probably had a relatively short gestation period , since it does not figure in the surviving lists of work - in - progress associated with the “ unfinished ” poems - lists which ...
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This interesting preponderance of private affairs over collective ideals in the lives of fictional characters has succeeded several lengthy periods in the history of Greek literature when local politics and the immediate historical past ...
This interesting preponderance of private affairs over collective ideals in the lives of fictional characters has succeeded several lengthy periods in the history of Greek literature when local politics and the immediate historical past ...
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