The complete collection of Cavafy's poems – including the unfinished works – in a stunning new translation. From the acclaimed author of "Lost", a translation that embodies new heights in contemporary poetic rendering. With an excellent sense of irony and a sensitivity to Cavafy's musical form, Daniel Mendelsohn's translation brings to English the poet who gained recognition from generations of writers such as E.M. Forster and T.S. Eliot.

From the fall of Homer's heroes to the rise of the modern world, Cavafy's poetry collapses the spectrums of time, geography, and age into intimate personal epitaphs. Works such as "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "Ithaca", famous for reviving ancient worlds, continue to resonate with the contemporary reader in terms of timeless relevance. Here they are accompanied by Cavafy's unfinished poems, translated into English for the first time. By a highly respected classicist and social essayist, Daniel Mendelsohn's edition is uniquely positioned to become the new definitive edition of Cavafy in English.