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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... poet - historian " who wrote poetry but not history . Roughly half of all Cavafy's poems are set in the remote past , or make substantive allusions to historical persons or events . And the potential ambiguity of the phrase лoints ...
... poet - historian " who wrote poetry but not history . Roughly half of all Cavafy's poems are set in the remote past , or make substantive allusions to historical persons or events . And the potential ambiguity of the phrase лoints ...
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... poet - historian . But in the light of these poems we must insist on the hyphen , for the poet - historian is a hybrid . As poet - historian , Cavafy flouts the expectations which both his contemporaries and later critics have of poetry ...
... poet - historian . But in the light of these poems we must insist on the hyphen , for the poet - historian is a hybrid . As poet - historian , Cavafy flouts the expectations which both his contemporaries and later critics have of poetry ...
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... poetry , provoking new poems in a country which , through Whitman , had perhaps helped to stimulate some of his own ... poetry can never be complete , as the assimilation of great poets by later poets , even great ones , can never be ...
... poetry , provoking new poems in a country which , through Whitman , had perhaps helped to stimulate some of his own ... poetry can never be complete , as the assimilation of great poets by later poets , even great ones , can never be ...
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an exclusive slogan or a universal | 1 |
Hellenic identity | 25 |
Byzantine historian? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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