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708:. Mythological references are also present. The periods chosen are mostly of decline and decadence (e.g. Trojans); his heroes facing the final end. His historical poems include: "The Glory of the Ptolemies", "In Sparta", "Come, O King of Lacedaemonians", "The First Step", "In the Year 200 B.C.", "If Only They Had Seen to It", "The Displeasure of Seleucid", "Theodotus", "
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to the Greek
Embassy in Cairo until 1998. After Cavafy’s death in 1933, the apartment turned into a cheap hostel; it was later recontructed with the help of photographs becoming reminiscent of Cavafy's time. The Cavafy Museum contains a wide range of bibliographical material; it is home to several of
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Cavafy's complete literary corpus includes the 154 poems that constitute his poetic canon; his 75 unpublished or "hidden" poems, that were found completed in his archive or in the hands of friends, and weren't published until 1968; his 37 rejected poems, which he published but later renounced; his 30
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I am from
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In 1922, Cavafy quit his high-ranking position at the department of Public Works, an act that he characterized as liberation, and devoted himself to the completion of his poetic work. In 1926, the Greek state honoured Cavafy for his contribution to Greek letters by awarding him the Silver medal of
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where the 300 Spartans and their allies fought against the greater numbers of
Persians, although they knew that they would be defeated. There are some principles in our lives that we should live by, and Thermopylae is the ground of duty. We stay there fighting although we know that there is the
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In 1885, Cavafy returned to
Alexandria, where he lived for the rest of his life, leaving it only for excursions and travels abroad. After his arrival, he reacquired his Greek citizenship and abandoned the British citizenship, which his father had acquired in the late 1840s. He initially started
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incomplete poems that were found unfinished in his archive; as well as numerous other prose poems, essays, and letters. According to the poet's instructions, his poems are classified into three categories: historical, philosophical, and hedonistic or sensual.
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Cavafy's sketches and original manuscripts, as well as several pictures and portraits of and by Cavafy. It holds translations of Cavafy’s poetry in 20 languages by 40 different scholars and most of the 3,000 articles and works written about his poetry.
2183:(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.
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Also called instructive poems, they are divided into poems with consultations to poets, and poems that deal with other situations such as isolation (for example, "The walls"), duty (for example, "Thermopylae"), and human dignity (for example,
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He is known for his prosaic use of metaphors, his brilliant use of historical imagery, and his aesthetic perfectionism. These attributes, amongst others, have assured him an enduring place in the literary pantheon of the
Western World.
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and with their business now dissolved they moved back to
Alexandria in 1877. Cavafy attended the Greek college "Hermes", where he made his first close friends, and started drafting his own historical dictionary at age eighteen.
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working as a news correspondent at the journal "Telegraphos" (1886), he later worked at the stock exchange, and was eventually hired as a temporary, due to his foreign citizenship, clerk in the
British-run
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In another poem, "In the Year 200 B.C.", he comments on the historical epigram "Alexander, son of Philip, and the Greeks, except of
Lacedaemonians,...", from the donation of Alexander to Athens after the
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Almost all of Cavafy's work was in Greek; yet, his poetry remained unrecognized and underestimated in Greece, until after the publication of the first anthology in 1935 by
Heracles Apostolidis (father of
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two years in
Constantinople. It has been many years since I last visited Greece. My last employment was as a clerk at a government office under the Ministry of Public Works of Egypt. I know
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until 1926). During these decades, a series of unexpected deaths of close friends and relatives would leave their mark on the poet. He published his poetry from 1891 to 1904 in the form of
2168:(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
819:: regretting the greed for riches which led him to sail so far away and end up "among utter barbarians", expressing his deep longing for his homeland and his wish to die as "In
2203:(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).
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Selections of Cavafy's poems appeared only in pamphlets, privately printed booklets and broadsheets during his lifetime. The first publication in book form was "Ποιήματα" (
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that remained incomplete or in sketch form weren't published until much later. He consistently refused to publish his work in books, preferring to share it through local
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The dictionary was compiled with the help of books that Cavafy borrowed from public libraries; it eventually remained incomplete, stopping at the word "Alexandros".
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Illness", "If Dead Indeed", "In the Month of Athyr", "Tomb of Ignatius", "From Ammones Who Died Aged 29 in 610", "Aemilianus Monae", "Alexandrian, A.D. 628-655", "
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that have played roles in Greek culture. Some of the defining themes are uncertainty about the future, sensual pleasures, the moral character and
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and idea, so condemning the closed-mind and localistic ideas about Hellenism. However, in other poems, his stance displays ambiguity between the
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A comprehensive website, including a biography, a gallery, bibliography, news and extensive selections of poetry in English and Greek
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nationality. Two years after his father's sudden death in 1870, Cavafy and his family settled for a while in England, moving between
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2210:(Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010). First book to approach Cavafy's work from a postcolonial perspective.
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on 29 April 1933, his 70th birthday. Since his death, Cavafy's reputation has grown; his poetry is taught in school in
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were among the earliest promoters of Cavafy in the English-speaking world before the Second World War. In 1966,
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2193:(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995). An extensive analysis of Cavafy's works.
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1603:[C. P. Cavafy - His life and Work] (in Greek). 11 August 2017. Archived from
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1219:"C.P. Cavafy, Selected Poems", translated by David Connolly, Aiora Press, Athens 2013
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uses the place and imagery of Cavafy to create a comparable contemporary landscape.
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Cavafy's work has been translated numerous times in many languages. His friend
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Before Time Could Change Them: The Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy
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knew him personally and wrote a memoir of him, contained in his book
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Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination: Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott
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The Greek Poems of C.P. Cavafy as Translated by Memas Kolaitis
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Clearing the Ground: C.P. Cavafy, Poetry and Prose, 1902-1911
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will appear, leading the Persians through the secret trail).
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A Historical Guide to Cavafy's Alexandria (331 BCE - 641 CE)
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Greek Orthodox Cemetery, Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt
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1734:[C. P. Cavafy - Poems]. 5 May 2009. Archived from
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Greek director Stelios Haralambopoulos's 2006 documentary
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Cavafy was instrumental in the revival and recognition of
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C. P. Cavafy - The official website of the Cavafy Archive
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A biographical note written by Cavafy reads as follows:
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Barbarism Revisited: New Perspectives on an Old Concept
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One of Cavafy's most important works is his 1904 poem "
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Daskalopoulos, Dimitris; Stasinopoulou, Maria (2002).
1569:"Mixing History and Desire: The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy"
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The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy: A New Translation
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Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City 1860–1960
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Egypt, by Dan Richardson, Rough Guides, 2003, p. 594.
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Translations of Cavafy's poems are also included in:
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2273:Artificial Flowers: Selected Poems by K.P. Kavafis
1989:"The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy"
1128:, translated by J.C. Cavafy (Athens: Ikaros, 2003)
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1529:"Cavafy Museum | Hellenic Foundation for Culture"
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1259:(Santa Barbara, CA: Kolaitis Dictionaries, 1980)
919:The Night Fernando Pessoa Met Constantine Cavafy
884:featured one of Cavafy's poems in his 1970 film
779:The poem "Thermopylae" reminds us of the famous
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1874:"Thermopylae – a poem on the good kind of life"
1681:A History of Gay Literature, the Male Tradition
1184:, translated by Alan L Boegehold (Axios Press,
853:Cavafy's apartment in Alexandria is located on
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1309:(Evanston, Illinois: Triquarterly Books, 2006)
1140:, translated by Stratis Haviaras, foreword by
2222:Imagination and Logos: Essays on C. P. Cavafy
2217:, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
1299:(Loughcrew, Ireland: The Gallery Press, 2006)
1060:(New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961)
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1279:(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
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1084:Passions and Ancient Days - 21 New Poems
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2323:Works by or about Constantine P. Cavafy
2301:"Of the Jews (A.D. 50)" by C. P. Cavafy
2215:C. P. Cavafy: The Economics of Metonymy
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1601:"Κ. Π. Καβάφης - Η Ζωή και το Εργο του"
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1848:"The Sensuous Archaism of C.P. Cavafy"
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1655:Daskalopoulos & Stasinopoulou 2002
1471:"Constantine P. Cavafy - Greek writer"
1329:(Manchester, UK: Carcanet Press, 2010)
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1567:Margaronis, Maria (15 July 2009).
1132:I've Gazed So Much by C. P. Cavafy
1102:, translated by Edmund Keeley and
823:I would be surrounded by Greeks".
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2280:Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933)
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2102:The Life and Work of C. P. Cavafy
2009:Pamuk, Orhan (19 December 2013).
1896:"C.P. Cavafy - Poems - The Canon"
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1343:Selected Prose Works, C.P. Cavafy
1269:(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)
1144:(Athens: Hermes Publishing, 2004)
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1758:"More Cavafy by A. E. Stallings"
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2286:"As Good as Great Poetry Gets"
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2266:Cavafy: surviving immortality
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1196:C. P. Cavafy, Collected Poems
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1100:C. P. Cavafy, Collected Poems
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811:who was sold into slavery in
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2412:Deaths from laryngeal cancer
2295:The New York Review of Books
2201:Cavafy: A Critical Biography
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1172:C. P. Cavafy, Selected Poems
1070:Complete Poems by C P Cavafy
1050:The Complete Poems of Cavafy
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2387:20th-century Egyptian poets
2372:19th-century Egyptian poets
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2067:"Commencement Address 1995"
1094:Poems by Constantine Cavafy
1002:transformed Cavafy's poem "
718:Myres: Alexandrian A.D. 340
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1987:Haralambopoulos, Stelios.
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1732:"Κ. Π. Καβάφης - Ποιήματα"
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2382:19th-century male writers
2220:Panagiotis Roilos (ed.),
1683:. Yale University Press.
1628:Ο Καβάφης και η εποχή του
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688:(Η δόξα τῶν Πτολεμαίων).
380:Alexandria was bombarded
2467:Writers from Alexandria
2292:article on Cavafy from
1679:Woods, Gregory (1999).
1550:Forster, E. M. (1923).
1138:C. P. Cavafy, The Canon
1004:The God Abandons Antony
774:The God Abandons Antony
763:Manuscript of his poem
714:The God Forsakes Antony
684:Manuscript of Cavafy's
616:In 1911, Cavafy wrote "
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1925:www.alexandria.gov.eg
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1044:Poems by C. P. Cavafy
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2065:Rhodes, Frank H. T.
1553:Pharos and Pharillon
1257:Cavafy as I knew him
898:, originally titled
880:Scottish songwriter
453:cancer of the larynx
408:Gregorios Xenopoulos
246:. A major figure of
153:Order of the Phoenix
151:Silver medal of the
65:Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης
2427:Egyptian male poets
2313:In the Dull Village
2213:Panagiotis Roilos,
2191:Cavafy's Alexandria
2036:"Alexandra Leaving"
1505:on 13 February 2014
1246:Modern Greek Poetry
1148:The Collected Poems
755:Philosophical poems
542:, and a fatalistic
488:In the dull village
2452:Modern Greek poets
2160:Constantine Cavafy
2015:The New York Times
1852:The Critical Flame
1669:, pp. 19, 26.
1632:Cavafy and his era
1531:. 10 November 2014
1056:, introduction by
1021:Cornell University
1017:Frank H. T. Rhodes
970:The New York Times
948:The American poet
938:Alexandria Quartet
910:and with music by
908:Dimitris Katalifos
870:In popular culture
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2437:Greek journalists
2290:Daniel Mendelsohn
2206:Martin McKinsey,
2125:The Hudson Review
1963:"Alexandros Film"
1832:978-977-452-243-7
1795:978-90-04-30927-2
1764:. 27 January 2018
1762:Poetry Foundation
1704:Talalay, Lauren.
1690:978-0-300-08088-9
1657:, pp. 17–22.
1641:978-960-04-0875-1
1607:on 11 August 2017
1425:Poetry Foundation
1182:Cavafy: 166 Poems
1074:Daniel Mendelsohn
887:There Is an Ocean
710:Alexandrian Kings
650:Renos Apostolidis
586:The Tartar Steppe
475:Arnold J. Toynbee
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