David Connolly: “We believed we could change the world”

David Connolly, translator of Greece’s greatest modern poets has devoted his life to bringing Greek literature to the world. On the occasion of the International Academic Conference on Elytis held in Nicosia, where he delivered the opening address, we sat down with him to talk about his visits to the legendary poet’s flat on Skoufa Street, his childhood fascination with Greece, the glamour of a vanished era, and an age like ours — one that seems to lack great poets, great composers, and above...