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.

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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



Category:1863 births
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Category:Deaths from laryngeal cancer