C.P. Cavafy. "Expecting the Barbarians". Translated by Marguerite Yourcenar and W.H. Auden. In The Best of Modern European Literature (Heart of Europe): An Anthology of Creative Writing in Europe 1920-1940 (Klaus Mann and Hermann Kesten, eds. Philadelphia: The Blakiston Company, [1945]): 285-286. <Poetry>

Part of a section on "Greece", also including: Demetrios Capetanakis, "Introduction" (pp. 284-285); Pantelis Prevelakis, "Two Poems": "The breezes of freedom…", "The sunset entered the room…", tr. Demetrios Capetanakis (p. 287); Lilika Nakos, "Maternity" <prose>, tr. Allan Ross Macdougall (pp. 287-290).

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Republished in The Atlantic Monthly 194.6 (June 1955): 126. {2.22}