Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis (1863 – 29 April 1933), known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy, was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria. A major figure of modern Greek literature, he is sometimes considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century.His works and consciously individual style earned him a place among the most important contributors not only to Greek poetry, but to Western poetry as a whole.
