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A glimpse of Cavafy at work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Anthony Hirst
Anthony Hirst*
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King’s College London
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Abstract

This article takes as its starting point Savidis’ description of certain manuscripts of published and unpublished poems written by Cavafy between 1885 and 1904, manuscripts which evidently once formed a unity. Examples of manuscripts containing two or more poems are considered, in order to show how a chronological sequence of poems on unnumbered pages was reorganized by Cavafy, with the addition of page numbers, to form a thematic sequence. (This is compared to Cavafy’s later practice of progressively transferring poems from chronological to thematic collections.) A third stage is noted involving the dispersal and partial destruction of the manuscripts.

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 23 , 1999 , pp. 246 - 254
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1999

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