First published in the slim volume …Cyprus, Where It Was Ordained for Me…, Engomi is considered one of George Seferis’s most characteristic poems. It is a free-verse ode in five uneven-length stanzas, the last one of which contains two lines… Read More ›
modern Greek poetry
Analysis of Constantine P. Cavafy’s Days of 1908
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 ›