[ilds] Cavafy_new translation_review

[Sumantra Nag]

I am not sure that this review (Web link given below) or a review of this new translation has not already been brought up recently on the ILDS Forum. 

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"Constantine Cavafy, whose collected works have just been issued in a fine new translation by classicist Daniel Mendelsohn (a regular essayist in The New York Review of Books), was the fortunate inheritor of a tradition inaugurated by Homer and the mythic cycle that threads through the classical, Hellenistic and Byzantine Christian eras." 

Poet homes in on an ancient vision 
FORUM: Luke Slattery | May 02, 2009 

2 May 09, The Australian)

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