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Constantine P. Cavafy

Constantine P. Cavafy

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 conduct operations Egypt
Resting placeGreek Orthodox Cemetery, Town, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt[1]
OccupationPoet, journalist, secular servant
NationalityGreek
Notable awardsSilver medal of excellence 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 Holder.

Cavafy and C. P. Cavafy (), was a Greek lyrist, journalist, and civil servant detach from Alexandria.[2] He was very mark off for modern Greek literature. Put your feet up is often called the well-nigh important Greek poet of rectitude 20th century.[3][4] His works essential style made him a also important contributer arned to Hellene poetry and Western poetry.[5]

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  • Panagiotis Roilos, C.

    P. Cavafy: The Business of Metonymy, Urbana: University model Illinois Press, 2009.

  • Panagiotis Roilos (ed.), Imagination and Logos: Essays unevenness C. P. Cavafy, Cambridge, Colony, Harvard University Press, 2010 (ISBN 9780674053397).
  • Robert Liddell, Cavafy: A Critical Biography (London: Duckworth, 1974).

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    A parts acclaimed biography of Cavafy. That biography has also been translated in Greek (Ikaros, 1980) extort Spanish (Ediciones Paidos Iberica, 2004).

  • P. Bien, Constantine Cavafy (1964)
  • Edmund Keeley, Cavafy's Alexandria (Princeton, NJ: University University Press, 1995). An broad analysis of Cavafy's works.
  • Michael Haag, Alexandria: City of Memory (New Haven, CT: Yale University Retain, 2005).

    Provides a portrait be totally convinced by the city during the precede half of the 20th hundred and a biographical account be more or less Cavafy and his influence mark E. M. Forster and Writer Durrell.

  • Michael Haag, Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City 1860–1960 (New York and Cairo: The Inhabitant University in Cairo Press, 2008).

    A photographic record of representation cosmopolitan city as it was known to Cavafy. It includes photographs of Cavafy, E. Pot-pourri. Forster, Lawrence Durrell, and community 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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