Both Constantine and his older brother, Peter, began dabbling with poetry from a young age; but only Constantine, after many years of dilettantism, as if lifting himself up by his own aesthetic ...

Though Cavafy never published a book during his lifetime, preferring to circulate his poems privately in broadsides and pamphlets, acclaim for his work has grown steadily, both in the U.S. and abroad, ...

The poet Constantine Cavafy was a cosmopolitan by both birth and inclination. His parents were Constantinople Greeks of what was then known as “good family”; by the time their youngest son was born in ...

Selected Prose Works by Constantine Cavafy translated and annotated by Peter Jeffreys Michigan, 184 pp., $24.95 Constantine Cavafy is a major figure in modern poetry, repeatedly translated into ...

World-renowned poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), a meticulous artist who left behind 154 carefully composed poems, seems to have readied the world, and many of the historical characters who appear ...

The more or less undying fascination with the poetry of Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), largely but hardly exclusively by the gay audience he addressed both expressly and subliminally, has not ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook In the festival “Archive of Desire,” artists and musicians thoughtfully engage with the writing of Constantine P. Cavafy, a ...

Constantine Cavafy, the greatest Greek poet since antiquity, never published a complete book of his poems during his lifetime. Instead, he would print them himself as pamphlets or broadsheets and ...

Duane Michals returns to the poetry of twentieth-century Greek poet Constantine Cavafy for inspiration for his most recent work. Michals' images loosely illustrate Cavafy's poetry, while investigating ...

35 x 22.5 cm. (13.8 x 8.9 in.) Andrew Brighton, David Hockney Prints, 1954-77, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, 1979 cat. no. 52 David Hockney Prints, 1954-1995 ...

For many writers, a boring existence is a calculated choice, and few have pursued the strategy with the cunning of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933). The word “uneventful” floats through ...