Constantine P. Cavafy

Constantine P. Cavafy
Constantine Cavafy in 1929
Native name	Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης
Born	(1863-04-29)April 29, 1863 Alexandria, Egypt Eyalet
Died	April 29, 1933(1933-04-29) (aged 70) Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt
Resting place	Greek Orthodox Cemetery, Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt
Occupation	Poet, journalist, civil servant
Nationality	Greek
Notable awards	Silver medal of the Order of the Phoenix
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Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης [ka'vafis]; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933), also called Constantine P. Cavafy and C. P. Cavafy (/kəˈvæfi/), was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria. He was very important for modern Greek literature. He is often called the most important Greek poet of the 20th century. His works and style made him a very important contributer arned to Greek poetry and Western poetry.

References

Sources

• Daskalopoulos, Dimitris; Stasinopoulou, Maria (2002). Ο βίος και το έργο του Κ. Π. Καβάφη [The life and work of C. P. Cavafy] (in Greek). Metaichmio. ISBN 9789603754572.
• Mendelsohn, Daniel (2022). "Cavafy's Homer". Hudson Review. 74 (4): 611–626.

Further reading

• Panagiotis Roilos, C. P. Cavafy: The Economics of Metonymy, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
• Panagiotis Roilos (ed.), Imagination and Logos: Essays on C. P. Cavafy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2010 (ISBN 9780674053397).
• Robert Liddell, Cavafy: A Critical Biography (London: Duckworth, 1974). A widely acclaimed biography of Cavafy. This biography has also been translated in Greek (Ikaros, 1980) and Spanish (Ediciones Paidos Iberica, 2004).
• P. Bien, Constantine Cavafy (1964)
• Edmund Keeley, Cavafy's Alexandria (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995). An extensive analysis of Cavafy's works.
• Michael Haag, Alexandria: City of Memory (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005). Provides a portrait of the city during the first half of the 20th century and a biographical account of Cavafy and his influence on E. M. Forster and Lawrence Durrell.
• Michael Haag, Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City 1860–1960 (New York and Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008). A photographic record of the cosmopolitan city as it was known to Cavafy. It includes photographs of Cavafy, E. M. Forster, Lawrence Durrell, and people they knew in Alexandria.
• Martin McKinsey, Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination: Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010). First book to approach Cavafy's work from a postcolonial perspective.

Other websites

• C. P. Cavafy - The official website of the Cavafy Archive (in English)
• A comprehensive website, including a biography, a gallery, bibliography, news and extensive selections of poetry in English and Greek
• Audio introduction to Cavafy's poems In English, with examination of ten of his finest poems
• The Cavafy Museum in Alexandria
• Cavafy: surviving immortality
• "Artificial Flowers"—translations by Peter J. King & Andrea Christofidou
• Extensive collection of poems, in English & Greek & audio
• 'As Good as Great Poetry Gets' Daniel Mendelsohn article on Cavafy from The New York Review of Books
• "Of the Jews (A.D. 50)" by C. P. Cavafy
• Audio: Cavafy's poem Ithaka read by Edmund Keeley
• "In the dull village", a painting by David Hockney inspired by Cavafy, now in the British Museum
• Works by or about Constantine P. Cavafy at Internet Archive
• Works by Constantine P. Cavafy at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)