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.
| ISBN: | 9780691044989 |
| Publication date: | 8th February 1996 |
| Author: | Edmund Keeley |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Princeton Modern Greek Studies |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval |