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- 1/10/1908 (Creation)
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42 x 27 cm
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Handwritten note on the first page of a ruled double sheet notepaper. Reference to titles of poems of his, which Cavafy characterises as "garbage".
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English
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Cavafy, C. P.. “Note by Cavafy”. Notes (handwritten), 01.10.1908. GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S03-F09-0017 (869), 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-F09-0017.
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Παλαιά ένδειξη ταξινόμησης
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- Notes (handwritten)
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Lament"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Beauty of evil"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Perception of beauty"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Cleopatra"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "When, my Friends, I Was in Love"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Harem"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Song"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Inspiration from Isches"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Despina is sleeping"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Porphyry"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Prosody"
- Works by C. P. Cavafy » "Systems"
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- Cavafy, C. P. (Authority)
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Aggressive note by Cavafy, in which he expresses his detest for poems of his youth, which remained unpublished. The titles referred to are the following: "Asma", "Empneusis ek tou Ischi", "Kallous antilipsis", "Harem", "I despoina koimatai", "Prosodia", "Kallos tis kakias", "Otan filoi mou agapousa", "Systimata", "Cleopatra", "Porphyrios", "Thrinos".