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Which Alexandrian-born poet wrote The God Abandons Antony, Ithaca, and Waiting for the Barbarians, earning worldwide recognition posthumously?

C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) was an Alexandrian Greek poet whose understated, historical poems about Hellenistic and Byzantine eras brought him posthumous global renown; his works were translated by E.M. Forster and others.

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