“Ithaka” is Constantine Cavafy’s best-known poem, having won him his first international acclaim when T. S. Eliot published a translation of it in The Criterion in 1924. One of the few “second-person” poems Cavafy wrote (along with “The City” in… Read More ›
Late antiquity and the Hellenistic era were two of Constantine Cavafy’s favorite historical periods, and he set a considerable number of his poems in them. Situated sometime during the first three centuries of Christianity, In the Month of Athyr (Εν… Read More ›
Among Constantine Cavafy’s latest compositions, Days of 1908 (Mεpες τoυ 1908) is one of a series of poems that name specific years in their titles and that, as such, may be called “memory poems.” The tone is suggestively autobiographical, as… Read More ›