Item 0020 (2063) - "C. P. Cavafy Poems (1905-1915)"

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GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S01-F02-SF003-0020 (2063)

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"C. P. Cavafy Poems (1905-1915)"

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  • 1925-1930 (Creation)

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24 x 15.5 cm

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Name of creator

Cavafy, C. P.

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Onassis Foundation

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Printed poetry collection by Cavafy. It comprises bound broadsheets, printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house. The collection contains 40 poems and consists of 100 pages; inserted sheet with the poem titles in two columns and in chronological order. Numbering at top right of the recto of each sheet, rather than on each page. Some of the numbers have been corrected by hand. The poems are printed on different dates during the 1925-1930 period, and with fonts of various sizes. Five copies. Handwritten dedication by Cavafy to the playwright Pantelis Horn in the title page of one of the copies. The inserted sheet of this copy contains the titles of three poems, handwritten. Number "5" in the dates "1905" and "1915" on the front cover is handwritten rather than printed. Handwritten dedication by Cavafy to Kostas Miniakis in the title page of the second copy. Its cover is of a different colour from that of the other two copies.

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      Greek

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      Writing in ink. Oxidations and wears.

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      "The City" >Α107
      "The Satrapy" >Α108
      "Ides of March" >Α111
      "Finished" >Α112
      "Sculptor from Tyana" >Α114
      "The God Abandons Antony" >Α116
      "Monotony" >Α98
      "Trojans" >Α87
      "King Demetrius" >Α90
      "The Glory of the Ptolemies" >Α121
      "Ithaca" >Α122
      "Alexandrian Kings" >Α129
      "But Wise Men Apprehend What Is Imminent" >Α385
      "Theodotus" >Α138
      "Orophernes" >Α142
      "The Battle of Magnesia" >Α142
      "The Seleucid's Displeasure" >Α142
      "Philhellene" >Α127
      "Herodes Atiicus" >Α125
      "The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian" >Α135
      "The Steps" >Α106
      "Tomb of Eurion" >Α135
      "That Is He" >Α104
      "Dangerous" >Α123
      "Manuel Comnenus" >Α142
      "In the Church" >Α227
      "Very Rarely" >Α132
      "In Stock" >Α133
      "Painted" >Α141
      "Morning Sea" >Α141
      "In the Entrance of the Café" >Α152
      "Song of Ionia" >Α46
      "One Night" >Α141
      "Come Back" >Α131
      "Far Off" >Α152
      "He Swears" >Α195
      "I Went" >Α133
      "Chandelier" >Α137
      "As Much As You Can" >Α133
      "The Retinue of Dionysus" >Α93

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      Cavafy, C. P.. “C. P. Cavafy Poems (1905-1915)”. Poems (collection), 1925-1930. GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S01-F02-SF003-0020 (2063), 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-S01-F02-SF003-0020.

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          Collection Γ10.

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