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Oct 11, 2013

Constantin P. Cavafy

from Modern Poetry Hosted by Wesley Wright

The poet Constantin Cavafy, who though he lived in Alexandria, Egypt was of Greek background and wrote in modern Greek, is one of the centrally important poets of the first years of the twentieth century. He is especially important for his extensive use demotic Greek — the language of not only the current day, […]

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