[C.P. Cavafy]. The Essential Cavafy. Selected and with an Introduction by Edmund Keeley. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Notes by George Savidis. The Essential Poets, 22. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1994. 69 p. <Poetry>

ISBN 0880014261; 9780880014267; 0880015160 pbk

Introduction (pp. 3-18). Thirty-nine poems: "The Horses of Achilles" (p. 19); "Waiting for the Barbarians" (pp. 20-21); "Trojans" (pp. 21-22); "The City" (pp. 22-23); "The Satrapy" (p. 23); "The God Abandons Antony" (p. 24); "Ionic" (pp. 24-25); "Ithaka" (pp. 25-26); "Philhellene" (pp. 26-27); "Alexandrian Kings" (pp. 27-28); "He Swears" (p. 28); "For Ammonis, Who Died at 29, in 610" (p. 29); "One of Their Gods" (pp. 29-30); "In the Evening" (pp. 30-31); "Kaisarion" (pp. 31-32); "Nero's Deadline" (p. 32); "Since Nine O'Clock" (p. 33); "The Afternoon Sun" (pp. 33-34); "Comes to Rest" (pp. 34-35); "Dareios" (pp. 35-36); "A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses" (p. 37); "From the School of the Renowned Philosopher" (pp. 37-38); "In Despair" (p. 39); "John Kantakuzinos Triumphs" (pp. 39-40); "In a Township of Asia Minor" (pp. 40-41); "In the Tavernas" (p. 41); "Days of 1896" (p. 42); "In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C." (pp. 42-44); "A Prince from Western Libya" (pp. 44-45); "Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340" (pp. 45-47); "To Have Taken the Trouble" (pp. 47-49); "In the Year 200 B.C." (pp. 49-50); "Days of 1908" (pp. 50-51); "Growing in Spirit" (pp. 51-52); "Going Back Home from Greece" (pp. 52-53); "Half an Hour" (p. 53); "The Bandaged Shoulder" (p. 54); "On the Outskirts of Antioch" (pp. 54-56); "The Ships" (pp. 56-58). Notes (pp. 59-68).

The prose poem "The Ships" (pp. 56-58) is an early "unpublished" poem (see note on p. 68: dated ca. 1895-96, and published by G.P. Savidis in 1986) translated by Edmund Keeley and Dimitri Gondicas and first published in Antaeus 75/76 (Autumn 1994): 247-249.

Paperback ed., 1995