Constantine P. Cavafy

**Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis** ( ; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933), also called **Constantine P. Cavafy** and **C. P. Cavafy** (), 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.

## 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 ().
- 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

## Infobox (writer)

- **image**: Konstantinos Kavafis.jpg
- **caption**: Constantine Cavafy in 1929
- **birth place**: Alexandria, Egypt Eyalet
- **death place**: Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt
- **resting place**: Greek Orthodox Cemetery, Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt
- **occupation**: Poet, journalist, civil servant
- **signature**: C-p-cavafy-signature.svg
- **nationality**: Greek
- **awards**: Silver medal of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece), Order of the Phoenix
- **native name**: Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης