The perspective of precious, sensuous human intimacy makes Constantine Cavafy a fascinating poet but also difficult to write about. Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis, the authors of Alexandrian ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Constantine Cavafy may not be a household name, but the Greek poet was admired by English novelist E.M. Forster, and Jacqueline Kennedy loved his poetry so much that it was read at her funeral mass.

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (RNS) — He was born and died in Alexandria, Egypt, then home to a large Greek community that began immigrating to Egypt in the 19th century. Writing primarily in Greek and little ...

For many writers, a boring existence is a calculated choice, and few have pursued the strategy with the cunning of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933). The word “uneventful” floats through ...

C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is the most renowned and far-reaching poet of modern Greece. Inspired by Greece's long and cosmopolitan history, especially in connection with his native city of Alexandria, ...

those long dead which I so little valued. Half past twelve. How the time has passed. Half past twelve. How the years have passed. Constantine Cavafy, the greatest Greek poet since antiquity, never ...

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Jacki Lyden. During World War I, the English novelist, E.M. Forster, met a Greek poet named Constantine Petrou Cavafy. He later described CP Cavafy as ...