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 ...

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 ...

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.

The explicitly historical poems -- which have titles like "The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian" and "Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 B.C.)" -- are often set in the obscure margins of the declining Byzantine ...

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 ...

It doesn’t seem so perverse now to say that Constantine Cavafy can be seen as one of the most significant poets of the 20th century. EM Forster and WH Auden were among the first to celebrate him. By ...

According to one of Constantine Cavafy’s friends—a claim twice cited in this noticeably slim volume—Cavafy “abjured three activities: giving lectures, granting interviews, and writing prose.” Though ...