Item 0008 (821) - "Ode & Elegy of the Streets"

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GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S03-F11-0008 (821)

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"Ode & Elegy of the Streets"

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  • 23/10/1909 (Creation)

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22.5 x 19.5 cm

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Handwritten note on the poem "Ode & Elegy of the Streets" in a sheet made of two pieces of paper affixed onto a third one (at top right of the blank verso, another affixed piece of paper), as well as in two other pieces of paper. On one of the two, date at the bottom of the verso and number "2" on the recto, at top right. The notes are linguistic remarks and references to Ptochoprodromus and to folk songs (published by Passow) as well as to poems by Cavafy ("Walls", "In the Cemetery").

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      Mainly Greek

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      Writing in ink and pencil. indiscernible watermark. Physical item wear: oxidations and hole.

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      "Ode and Elegy of the Streets" >Α40
      "Walls" >Α50
      "In the Cemetery" >Α524

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      Cavafy, C. P.. “Ode & Elegy of the Streets”. Notes (handwritten), 23.10.1909. GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S03-F11-0008 (821), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF01-S03-F11-0008.

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      F79_φ20-22

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          Linguistic drafting of the poem "Ode and Elegy of the Streets" towards a simpler, demotic language. Examples from the folk songs of the Arnold Passow publication and from the Ptochoprodromus poems, published by Legrand, are used for the word "slow".

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