C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature.

This revised bilingual edition of Collected Poems offers the reader the original Greek texts facing what are now recognized as the standard English translations of Cavafy's poetry. It is this translation that best captures the poet's mixture of formal and idiomatic language and that preserves the immediacy of his increasingly frank treatment of homosexual eroticism, his brilliant re-creation of history, and his astute political ironies. This new bilingual edition also features the notes of editor George Savidis and a new foreword by Robert Pinsky.

"Auden ascribed Cavafy’s power to surmount translation to ‘a tone of voice,’ the revelation of ‘a person with a unique perspective on the world.’ That perspective is keenly evoked in a new translation by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard."---T. E. Kalam, Time

"[Keeley and Sherrard] have managed the miracle of capturing this elusive, inimitable, unforgettable voice. It is the most haunting voice I know in modern poetry."---Walter Kaiser, New Republic

"[This is] among the key books of our century and should be read by anyone who cares for poetry."

"The best [English version] we are likely to see for some time."---James Merrill, New York Review of Books