description: 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 the heart of 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.
language: English
title: Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress
titlecomplete: Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 34
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)