Constantine P. Cavafy

Constantine P. Cavafy
Constantine Cavafy in 1929
Constantine Cavafy in 1929
Native name
Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης
Born(1863-04-29)April 29, 1863
Alexandria, Egypt Eyalet
DiedApril 29, 1933(1933-04-29) (aged 70)
Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt
Resting placeGreek Orthodox Cemetery, Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt[1]
OccupationPoet, journalist, civil servant
NationalityGreek
Notable awardsSilver 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.[2] He was very important for modern Greek literature. He is often called the most important Greek poet of the 20th century.[3][4] His works and style made him a very important contributer arned to Greek poetry and Western poetry.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Egypt, by Dan Richardson, Rough Guides, 2003, p. 594.
  2. ↑ Before Time Could Change Them. Theoharis Constantine. 2001. pp. 13–15.
  3. ↑ "C. P. Cavafy". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "C. P. Cavafy". Poets.org. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "Constantine P. Cavafy - Greek writer". Retrieved 28 January 2018.

Sources

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.

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