ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on cultural activities such as the publication of the magazine Anglo-Greek Review. Though a few articles on the poet were published in the Anglo-Greek Review, there were undoubtedly reservations about Cavafy's poetry, once again calling into question any modernist label which might otherwise be attached to the magazine. By publishing or reprinting certain articles, the Anglo-Greek Review played a crucial role in the new openness and the search for a new myth of Greece. One could read these articles as a subtle form of British propaganda and a way of highlighting the importance of freedom of speech in a politically polarized period in Greece. It could be argued that the Review contributed more to the reputation of Seferis than did Ta Nea Grammata and that it was instrumental in canonizing Greece's literary past. This canonization was supported by reprinting articles on Seferis by foreign critics and Andreas Karantonis, Dimitris Nikolareizis and Mitsos Papanikolaou.