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
The Athens-based Onassis Foundation is making the case that Cavafy is a man for our moment with “Archive of Desire,” a nine-day New York City-wide celebration of the poet, ending Saturday.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2023
Looking at our bookshelves, I plucked out a slim volume by Constantine P. Cavafy.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2023
That’s why Milanovic pointedly ended one of his earlier books with a quote by the poet Constantine Cavafy:
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 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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