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	Constantine P. Cavafy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cavafy was a skeptic who attacked traditional values of Christianity, patriotism, and heterosexuality, though he was not always comfortable with his role as a nonconformist.
		His father was a wealthy importer-exporter, however, when his father died in 1870, Cavafy and his family had to move to Liverpool, UK, though he moved back to Alexandria in 1882.
		Cavafy was instrumental to the revival and recognition of Greek poetry both at home and abroad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cavafy (534 words)

	C.P. Cavafy's Biography
		Constantine P. Cavafy (Kavafis), born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1863, was the ninth and last child of Constantinopolitan parents.
		His first verse was written in English (signed "Constantine Cavafy"), and both his subsequent practice as a poet and his limited prose criticism demonstrate a substantial familiarity with the English poetic tradition, in particular the works of Shakespeare, Browning, and Oscar Wilde.
		Cavafy never offered a volume of his poems for sale during his lifetime; his method of distributing his work was to give friends and relatives the several pamphlets of his poems that he had printed privately and a folder of his latest broadsheets or offprints held together by a large clip.
	cavafis.compupress.gr /bio2.htm (1305 words)

	Constantine Caramanlis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Constantine of Scotland Short hagiography of the king and martyr.
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		The Arch of Constantine Illustrated description of the arch which was erected to celebrate Constantine I's victory at the Milvian Bridge in 312 CE.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Constantine_Caramanlis.html (214 words)

	C. P. Cavafy, a poet in history by Joseph Epstein
		Constantine Cavafy was the youngest of nine children born to a family that, by the time he came into the world, had already seen somewhat better and soon would see much worse days.
		Cavafy’s home was an apartment in the old Greek quarter on the Rue Lepsius, where he lived after the death of his mother, with whom he had resided until he was thirty-six; on a lower floor was a brothel, not the sole such institution on the street, which was also known as the Rue Clapsius.
		Cavafy admired those who could face this mystery without flinching, and his own poems lead one to think one has a chance to grasp that life truly is a mystery without necessarily making it any easier to face it on one’s own.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/12/jan94/epstein.htm (4050 words)

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		Constantine Cavafy was born in 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt, where he lived most of his life.
		With the help of Cavafy's friends, the apartment has been given some of the "atmosphere" of his life - photographs were used to help in the reconstruction of the furniture and the general surroundings.
		Cavafy's home was situated between the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, the Greek Hospital and the bordellos of the City, characterised by the poet as "The Temple of the Soul", "the Temple of the Body" and "the Temple of the Flesh".
	www.greece.org /alexandria/cavafy/cavafy2.htm (412 words)

	C.P. Cavafy
		Cavafy is reported to have called himself, late in life, a “poet of old age”, comparing himself with Anatole France who “wrote his colossal work after the age of forty-five”.
		The reasons for the negative criticism were diverse: Cavafy’s language, a subtle mixture of demotic and purist Greek not in keeping with the directives of the ‘demoticist’ movement; his style, considered prosaic; his lack of idealism; his bold eroticism.
		It was Cavafy’s friend E.M. Forster who is his essay ‘The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy’, published in 1919, first presented to the English public the “Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe”.
	greece.poetryinternational.org /cwolk/view/17923 (1246 words)

	Plaka: Literature: Poetry: Cavafy
		However, Cavafy directs us to see that it is the adventures, and not the home at the end, that represent the riches we are being offered.
		Cavafy never uses complicated imagery, his poems are always bare descriptions of events.
		Cavafy was a homosexual, and many of his poems explore frankly various incidents of love from that perspective.
	www.theplaka.com /literature/cavafy.htm (398 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Constantine Cavafy
		Cavafy, Constantine (Greek Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) (1863-1933), Greek poet, a leading figure in 20th-century Greek literature.
		Constantine the Great (about ad 274-337), Roman emperor (306-337), the first Roman ruler to be converted to Christianity.
		Constantine (city), city, northeastern Algeria, capital of Constantine Province.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Constantine_Cavafy.html (138 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Canadian literature, new & used textbooks, cookbooks, children's books, science fiction & more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death.
		Cavafy's mythical world presents us with an image of the good life--the life of exquisite sensuality, refined tastes, and mixed faiths--that more often than not carries within it the ripening prospect of its own death; yet in his work there appears to be no other life more worthy of celebration....
		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, since his death in 1933.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/930682/ref=br_bx_1_c_1_18/701-1394301-5052310 (362 words)

	Konstantinus Kafavis
		Cavafy has come in recent years to be regarded as a the greatest Mediterranean poet of modern times.
		Constantine P. Cavafy was born Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis (or Kabaphs) in Alexandria, Egypt, into a wealthy merchant family.
		Cavafy sketched a rich gallery of historical, semiobscure, or fictitious characters, whom he used as personae acting, or being discussed, in the episodes of his poems.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /kafavis.htm (1227 words)

	Ed Quinn
		The Cavafy family had a large amount of financial problems, with the father of nine, Peter, dying in 1870.
		The family moved to England after Peter's death, and it is said that the years that Constantine spent in England (between the ages of nine and sixteen) shaped the rest of his life.
		The only instance reported of Constantine attending any sort of formal education was after he returned to Alexandria, and enrolled in Hermis Lyceum for a brief period of time.
	www.angelfire.com /nb/edquinn/cavafy.htm (411 words)

	C. P. Cavafy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Constantine Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) ( 1863 - 1933) was an Greek poet, journalist and civil servant.
		He was born in Alexandria, Egypt.His father was a wealthy importer-exporter, however, when his father died in 1870, Cavafyand his family had to move to Liverpool, UK,though he moved back to Alexandria in 1882.
		In 1885 Cavafy moved back to Alexandria, where he livedfor the rest of his life.
	www.therfcc.org /c.-p.-cavafy-94144.html (192 words)

	Alibris: Constantine Cavafy
		Cavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse.
		C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death.
		C. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Constantine_Cavafy (487 words)

	PSH Webstore - Before Time Could Change Them: The Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy - Canadian Poetry and Poets
		Cavafy has come to be recognized as one of the greatest poets of modern times.
		In Cavafy's contemporary sphere one's erotic life mingles with the soul and its struggle in the world to survive either economic or sensory depravation.
		Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to Greek parents.
	www.poets.ca /pshstore/profile_book.asp?ISBN=0151005192 (620 words)

	Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Cavafy C P
		Many critics have complained that a great deal is lost in a translation of Cavafy, particularly some of the linguistic and stylistic craftsmanship, and that is true of any translation of a poet.
		Cavafy habitually used to forms of Greek, demotic and purist, to carry out his devices.
		I find that reading Cavafy in translation is a bit like having a conversation with someone who has a very interesting way of expressing himself.
	www.geometry.net /authors_bk/cavafy_c_p.html (1132 words)

	[minstrels] Ithaka -- Constantine Cavafy
		Alexandria in his time was in its last gasp of greatness, a cosmopolitan, lively, with a large expat community, Westernised, yet mysteriously 'Eastern' as well - if one is to take Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, which I'm sure we all read as impressionable teenagers, as a guide.
		Cavafy must have fit very well into this hothouse atmosphere.
		But of Cavafy's sensual city, and the world of the Alexandria Quartet there is nothing left beyond what's written.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/217.html (942 words)

	Constantine P. Cavafy Biography / Profile of Constantine P. Cavafy Biographies
		Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) was the first modernist Greek poet.
		Constantine P. Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt.
		As a poet, Cavafy was an exceptionally meticulous, slow worker, completing to his satisfaction only 24 poems before he was 48 (when he believed that he had reached his poetic maturity) and only 154 before his death.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/constantine-p-cavafy (210 words)

	[minstrels] In Harbor -- Constantine Cavafy
		And though it's all very well to celebrate the glories of the Silk Road in its heyday, it behooves us also to remember that in those times, travel of any sort was a perilous undertaking, fraught with danger and uncertainty.
		What I like about Cavafy's poem is the way it accepts this danger as a part of life...
		My favourite Cavafy poem is his masterpiece, 'Ithaka', which you can read (along with biographical info and the like) at poem #217.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/522.html (333 words)

	Constantine Cavafy: surviving immortality
		When, under Constantine, it is declared the religion of the state, the Greek gods are relegated to the realm of the ghosts in the underworld.
		Cavafy was the youngest son of a merchant on the decline who died early and left his wife and her seven children in an Alexandria where the Greeks were harassed by the ‘Asians’.
		Cavafy felt far more affinity for a return to the material word, as it is understood in God’s becoming a man and the resurrection of the flesh.
	www.d-sites.net /english/cavafy.htm (6392 words)

	UCL News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Poet Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933) was the focus of a one-day conference organised by the UCL Mellon Program.
		Cavafy was a multidimensional poet and a major influence on many high-calibre writers, including this year’s Nobel Laureate J M Coetzee, who borrowed the title of a Cavafy poem for his novel ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’.
		Cavafy is one of the most celebrated writers in the modern Greek canon; his poems have fascinated readers throughout the 20th century and have been translated into numerous languages.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /news/archive/2003/november-2003/latest/newsitem.shtml?03111701 (333 words)

	arborweb reviews - review: Cavafy's world
		Constantine Cavafy is the leading poet of modern Greek, although he never published a book in his lifetime or lived in Greece.
		He lived mostly in Alexandria, Egypt, a member of the Greek-speaking minority that was one of the last enclaves of the great Greek diaspora of the age of the conqueror Alexander.
		Cavafy wrote about history (particularly Hellenic history), about homosexual love, and about the power of art to mediate between the individual and the historical moment.
	www.arborweb.com /reviews/0203.cavafy-review.html (419 words)

	Constantine Cavafy Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography @ Local Color Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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		Audio introduction to Cavafy's poems ( http://www.uvm.edu/~sgutman/Cavafy.htm) In English, with examination of ten of his finest poems
	www.artisticnudity.com /search/encyclopedia/Constantine_Cavafy (681 words)

	Homage in Rabat to the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy
		The Moroccan poet and writer Bensalem himmich, who took part in this homage, established a comparison between the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy and the great Arab poet al-Mutanabbi, concluding that there exists "affinities of a spiritual nature" between the two poets.
		Constantine Cavafy's works include Voice, Candles, Walls, Waiting for the Barbarians, Trojans, Oaths, Ambassadors of Alexandria and Tomb of Lanis.His poems were translated into Arabic, German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and Russian.
		Constantine Cavafy was born on April 29, 1863 in Alexandria.
	morocco.poetryinternational.org /cwolk/view/20005 (166 words)

	The God Abandons Antony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Constantine Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis, 29 April 1863 - 29 April 1933 - yes, he died on his 70th birthday), Greek poet, is a leading figure in twentieth-century Greek literature.
		Cavafy's works became known to English readers through references in E. Forster's study of Alexandria, Pharos and Pharillon (1923), and in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet (1957-1960).
		Anthony, in Cavafy's poem is, of course, Marcus Antonius, Cleopatra's lover.
	www.leonardcohenfiles.com /cavafy.html (409 words)

	Powells Books - Before time could change them: (the complete poems of Constantine P). Cavafy ; translated with an ...
		Since his death almost seventy years ago, C. Cavafy has come to be recognized as one of the greatest poets of modern times.
		His verse is beautiful and embracing, and remains as alive and sensuous as it was when he wrote it.Theoharis Constantine Theoharis offers a new translation, one that presents Cavafy's work in the thematic order Cavafy wanted it published and emphasizes the tenderness and intensity of the love poems.
		Gore Vidal's foreword offers an explication of Cavafy's world, a valuable map for readers of what will be embraced as a signal volume of world poetry.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?show=Hardcover:Used:0151005192:18.95 (401 words)

	Cavafy, Constantine -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Roman emperor Constantine proclaimed it his capital in AD 330 and renamed it Constantinople.
		After the Emperor Constantine published his edict of toleration for all religions in AD 313, Christianity emerged as the most prevalent and powerful religious movement in the Roman Empire (see...
		The conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity is attributed to Constantine.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=22222&tocid=0 (521 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Before Time Could Change Them: The Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A Greek citizen who lived and worked in Alexandria, Cavafy is esteemed both for his elegant redactions of classical and ancient history and myth, and for his gorgeously muted and candidly homosexual poems of erotic longing and loss.
		Constantine P. Cavafy is one of the most intelligent and elloquent poets of this century, but remains barely known in American.
		Probably because Cavafy is a man and his poems of lust and longing are addressed at other young men.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151005192?v=glance (1169 words)

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