The great, early-twentieth-century Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy much preferred writing about a culture’s end-times rather than all of the times that came before. This was largely because he ...

The Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) never published a book, yet today no anthology of world poetry can afford to neglect him. He was great poet of history, psychology and erotic yearning.

Selected Prose Works by Constantine Cavafy translated and annotated by Peter Jeffreys Michigan, 184 pp., $24.95 Constantine Cavafy is a major figure in modern poetry, repeatedly translated into ...

The more or less undying fascination with the poetry of Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), largely but hardly exclusively by the gay audience he addressed both expressly and subliminally, has not ...

The building where the acclaimed Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy lived in Alexandria, Egypt, has been lovingly restored and opened to the public. The house in Alexandria, Egypt that was once home to ...

World-renowned poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), a meticulous artist who left behind 154 carefully composed poems, seems to have readied the world, and many of the historical characters who appear ...

Constantine Cavafy, the greatest Greek poet since antiquity, never published a complete book of his poems during his lifetime. Instead, he would print them himself as pamphlets or broadsheets and ...

The poet Constantine Cavafy was a cosmopolitan by both birth and inclination. His parents were Constantinople Greeks of what was then known as “good family”; by the time their youngest son was born in ...

The 20th-century Greek-Alexandrian poet wrote of a faded grandeur that stood for all humanity. By Anthony Sattin In 1915, during the First World War, EM Forster arrived in Egypt. A conscientious ...

The great, early-twentieth-century Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy much preferred writing about a culture’s end-times rather than all of the times that came before. This was largely because he ...