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I'M ON HOLIDAY from kendrive ^Pro 83 days old

Leaving it all behind for . . . My hotel in Costa, Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Blog postings will recommence on September 17.

PASSIONS AND VIRTUES from kendrive ^Pro 307 days old

Today a departure from Cavafy's soul-searching intimate poetry, with this description of life in classical Greece IN THE SOUL'S HOUSE "Plus au fond. ...

THIS IS MY LOT from kendrive ^Pro 316 days old

Here is Cavafy in depressed, despondent mood - as he often is! THE CITY You said: "I'll go to another country, go to another shore, find another ...

NOTHING VENTURED from kendrive ^Pro 320 days old

[ ... ] Ancient Greece and the writers and philosophers of that time. In today's poem he comments on taking that important first step, in anything we ...

THE SPELL OF LOVE from kendrive ^Pro 321 days old

I thought today I would move away from Cavafy's darker mood into happier times - at least in his memory. OUTSIDE THE HOUSE Walking yesterday some ...

IT'S THE JOURNEY THAT COUNTS from kendrive ^Pro 329 days old

Until I can find a new poet to enthuse about, I am returning to some old favourites - such as this: ITHAKA As you set out for Ithaka hope your road ...

GOLDEN APPLES OF HESPERIDES from kendrive ^Pro 428 days old

I have recently returned from Greece and thought that today I would go back to that country's mythology with a poem about apples - golden apples that ...

ITHACA from kendrive ^Pro 844 days old

I am concluding my short selection from the work of C.P. Cavafy with his most famous poem - "Ithaca", about the journeys of Odysseus, an allegory about ...