Cavafy's Alexandria by Edmund Keeley (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691044989
Publisher : Princeton University Press; Reprint edition (December 11, 1995)
Paperback : 208 pages
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, Edmund Keeley describes Cavafy's literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth