Cavafy's Alexandria

C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy's literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth.

Author: Edmund Keeley
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 12/31/1995
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.08w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780691044989

About the Author
Edmund Keeley is Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English and Director of Hellenic Studies Program Emeritus at Princeton University. He is the translator of C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, author of Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth and The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair, and editor of Voices of Modern Greece, all published by Princeton University Press.