The versification of Cavafy's poetry
Abstract
The objectives of this doctoral thesis are the study of the metrical organization of all the poems of C. P. Cavafy (of those recognized by the poet himself, i.e. the corpus of official Cavafian poetry, but also of other categories of poems, i.e. repudiated, unpublished or hidden and unfinished poems) and the examination of the evolution of his versification in the course of time. The research method followed includes the detailed description of the qualitative characteristics of the various forms and the metric-rhythmic means –based on their typological classification in broader and more specific categories– and the extraction of numerical results based on statistical measurements. The thesis is structured in three parts. In the first part, a historical review of the reception of the form of Cavafy’s poems is attempted from the appearance of the poet until today, reference is made to positions that Cavafy himself has formulated in his texts regarding issues of versification and, given ...
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