While he worked as a clerk in Alexandria, Egypt, Cavafy published verses intended for a small circle of admirers. Global fame ...

like music, in the night, far off, that fades away. Elsewhere, though, the lines seem to limp and trip–like the last line of “Ithaca”–often because they stay too close to Cavafy’s syntax.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what Ithacas mean. -Constantine P. Cavafy (1911) *** ...

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 ...

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 ...

A documentary from the Onassis Foundation that surveys the influence of poet C. P. Cavafy. To mark the 160th anniversary of C. P. Cavafy’s birth, the Onassis Foundation hosted a week-long ...

In the introduction to Rae Dalven’s 1961 translation of poems by C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) — the collection that, by and large, introduced the great Greek poet to large numbers of ...

The house in Alexandria, Egypt that was once home to the Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy – best known for his 1911 poem “Ithaca” – has opened its doors to the public.

Yet, Cavafy is an unlikely symbol of Greek culture and Christianity in Egypt. “Where could I live better?” he wrote about his modest building, which for a time also hosted a bordello.

The Athens-based Onassis Foundation is making the case that Cavafy is a man for our moment with “Archive of Desire,” a nine-day New York City-wide celebration of the poet, ending Saturday. The ...

Cavafy spent nearly all his life in Alexandria and for over 30 years he worked as a clerk in the Egyptian government. When he wasn’t writing poems, he socialized in cafes and played the horses.