The City (poem)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (March 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

The City (Greek: Ἡ Πόλις) is an 1894 poem by Constantine Cavafy.

Cultural impact[]

An English translation of the poem appears in the appendix of the Lawrence Durrell novel Justine; Cavafy is a character in the work. The narrator of Justine refers to his translation of this poem as "by no means literal".^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• Poem in Greek and English translation thereof (by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard) at the Official Site of the Cavafy Archive

Greek Wikisource has original text related to this article: Original poem in greek

This article related to a poem is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t