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U of R’s own reviewed a of Cavafy in the Times this weekend:

���Ĵ�ý�A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.���Ĵ�ý� With this sentence the novelist E. M. Forster introduced the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy to the English-speaking world in 1919. Since then, Cavafy���Ĵ�ý�s distinctive tone ���Ĵ�ý� wistfully elegiac but resolutely dry-eyed ���Ĵ�ý� has captivated English-language poets from W. H. Auden to James Merrill to Louise Glück. Auden maintained that Cavafy���Ĵ�ý�s tone seems always to ���Ĵ�ý�survive translation,���Ĵ�ý� and Daniel Mendelsohn���Ĵ�ý�s new translations render that tone more pointedly than ever before. Together with ���Ĵ�ý�The Unfinished Poems���Ĵ�ý� (the first English translation of poems Cavafy was still drafting when he died in 1933), this ���Ĵ�ý�Collected Poems���Ĵ�ý� not only brings us closer to one of the great poets of the 20th century; it also reinvigorates our relationship to the English language.