Cavafy
Americannoun
noun
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Cavafy and Wallace Stevens and stories by the Brothers Grimm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Cavafy was a hero to us — and continues to be a hero across the Greek-speaking world.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2023
“Ecstasy and Terror,” his third collection of essays, examines subjects across the millenniums, from Sappho and Euripides to C. P. Cavafy, John Williams, Karl Ove Knausgaard and “Game of Thrones.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
It is part of a series: Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from CP Cavafy.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2019
The late Dr Cavafy of St George’s Hospital urged me to learn something of Histology, and sent me to Dr Klein, whose pupil I had the good fortune to become at the Brown Institute.
From Springtime and Other Essays by Sir Francis Darwin
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