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The Walls and the Visions

on BBC Radio 3

The love poems of C. P. Cavafy
Compiled and read in English by John Theo eharis, with some in the original Greek. Introduced by Hallam Tennyson
Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - tohen the memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood.
Cavafy's love poetry, although homosexual in inspiration, has a universal appeal. He is one of a small band of poets whose work has achieved world fame through translation. followed by an interlude

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John Theo
Introduced By:
Hallam Tennyson

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