Hahaha, thanks for the affirmation. :p

They are all good poems (as far as I can tell so far). Cavafy uses all kinds of classical myth references, and his language is so lovely.

I don’t know any Greek, so I don’t know which translation is best. I wish I did! But I have heard good things about the Keeley and Sherrard translations, and I love “Ithaka”. Cavafy writes beautifully about cities.

Thanks for stopping by! Nice to hear from another Catullus/Cavafy lover.

What? Yes, he was! What crazy nonsense is this? He was devoted to his wife. If he’d met me he’d have been devoted to ME instead.

I don’t think I’ve read Seferis — I’ll have to investigate.

I know I can, AND I DO. 🙂

Well this would be an alternate world! If I traded the Browning letters for the Cavafy-Wilde letters, you’d never have known the Browning ones existed! So no literary detox at all. Don’t worry.

I would obviously trade the Elizabeth Bishop/Robert Lowell correspondence because I have never read it. :p And I would probably trade the Browning letters, but I’d have to read the Cavafy-Wilde letters first. To make sure.

I have no dead gay beaus. That would be absurd. And cuhVAHfy gets progressively easier and easier to say the more you try it.