C.P. Cavafy in the English and American literary scenes authorizing the other Dimirouli, Foteini 1986- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. enk 2025 monographic eng remote 1 online resource : illustrations. This study explores how C. P. Cavafy, once a little-known Alexandrian poet, achieved global recognition through the advocacy of influential English-language writers in the 20th century. Cover -- C. P. Cavafy in the English and American Literary Scenes : Authorizing the Other -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Epigraph -- Introduction: Cavafy in the World -- I. Making a Master -- II. Authorization and the Poet's Magic -- III. The Diasporic Poet in World Literature -- IV. Agents of Celebrity -- V. Struggles for Legitimacy -- VI. The Poet's Life: A Story in the Making -- VII. Chapter Summary -- 1: A 'Slight Angle' on the Staircase of Paradise E. M. Forster Discovers Cavafy I. The New Biography and Forster's 1919 Essay on Cavafy -- II. The Paradise Staircase and the Republic of Love -- III. Forster as Literary Mediator and Promoter: The Correspondence -- IV. William Plomer and a 'Cavafy Muddle' -- V. Looking Back: Forster's 1951 Essay on Cavafy -- 2: The 'Old Poet' of The Alexandria Quartet and the European Writer in Exile -- I. Durrell in Greece: Paradise Found and Lost -- II. The Condition of Exile and The Alexandria Quartet -- III. Cavafy, Exilic Entrapment, and Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism -- IV. The Homosexual Poet and the City's Decadence V. The Poet as Fictional Character and the Ecumenical Author -- 3: Cavafy's Crossing of the Atlantic The Mediation of W. H. Auden, Joseph Brodsky, and Stephen Spender -- I. W. H. Auden's 'Introduction' and Cavafy's Transposition to America -- II. 'The Age of Auden': Joseph Brodsky and Stephen Spender on Cavafy -- III. Cavafy's place in The New York Review of Books ' 'Republic of Letters' -- 4: James Merrill's Cavafy and the Poetics of Intimacy -- I. Tracing the Greece of Emotional Continuity -- II. Cavafy and Living Forms -- III. Translating a Singing Poet -- IV. Cavafy as Popular Aesthete V. The Questioning of the Canon -- Conclusion: Traditional Prestige, Pop Culture, and Digital Celebrity -- Bibliography -- Primary Texts -- Secondary Texts -- Index Specialized. specialized Foteini Dimirouli. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk--- n-us--- Cavafy, Constantine 1863-1933 Influence Cavafy, Constantine 1863-1933 Appreciation Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century United States Intellectual life 20th century Grande-Bretagne Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle États-Unis Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle 20th Century Modern HISTORY LITERARY CRITICISM Poetry Great Britain United States 1900-1999 fast PA5610.K2 Z57 2025 889.1/32 Oxford modern languages and literature monographs 9780191886027 0191886025 9780192592149 0192592149 9780198851431 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/60733 STBDS 250805 20260319210523.8 in00005728702 eng