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

The more or less undying fascination with the poetry of Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), largely but hardly exclusively by the ...

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.

Cavafy retells the anecdote of the Sophist Alexander of Seleucia who, arriving in Athens for “a rhetorical performance,” found most young potential auditors staying with Herodes at Marathon.

For Cavafy, as for writers from Baudelaire to Wilde, only art, particularly poetry itself, can preserve the fragments of experience and give them lasting value.

Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), as a Greek in his Egyptian city of Alexandria, was both native and alien. His work creates an Alexandria where neighborhood bars adjoin eternal myt ...

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.

The cardinal sins in Cavafy’s vision of history and politics are complacency, smugness, and a solipsistic inability to see the big picture. More: ...

David Hockney's "Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C P Cavafy" were published in 1966 in the various edition forms noted below. They are extremely rare in the market place and, after 18 years of ...

Mendelsohn’s essay on Cavafy teaches us to appreciate the Greek poet’s unique perspective, “one that (as it were) allowed him to see history with a lover’s eye and love with a historian ...