Kampos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, Issues 7-8Modern Greek Section, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, 2000 |
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Page 87
... never tells us that the princelings will meet their end . The last line in particular is an odd one : all the virtues of Cavafian obliqueness seem to have been sacrificed . But when darkness fell and their special outing was ended , Off ...
... never tells us that the princelings will meet their end . The last line in particular is an odd one : all the virtues of Cavafian obliqueness seem to have been sacrificed . But when darkness fell and their special outing was ended , Off ...
Page 97
... never named in the poem , as Christ is never named in " The Oration " - was simply a maniac ; just as Christ , to this bystander , " was mad of course " . There is a dry radicalism to Cavafy's treatment which Caroline Kizer has sought ...
... never named in the poem , as Christ is never named in " The Oration " - was simply a maniac ; just as Christ , to this bystander , " was mad of course " . There is a dry radicalism to Cavafy's treatment which Caroline Kizer has sought ...
Page 99
... never be complete , as the assimilation of great poets by later poets , even great ones , can never be complete . And I would like to end by reverting to an aspect too often neglected . One of the most important ways in which Cavafy ...
... never be complete , as the assimilation of great poets by later poets , even great ones , can never be complete . And I would like to end by reverting to an aspect too often neglected . One of the most important ways in which Cavafy ...
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Hellenic identity | 25 |
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