The Canon by C. P. Cavafy, translated by Stratis Haviaris, edited by Dana Bonstrom, with a foreward by Seamus Heaney and introduction by Manuel Savidis, Hermes Publishing, 2004, [pounds sterling]14.75 cloth.
In 1923, in Pharos and Pharillon, a collection of essays on life and culture in modern Egypt, E. M. Forster introduced the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) to the English-speaking world. Forster asked his readers to imagine walking the streets of contemporary ...