Cavafy's Alexandria
By: Edmund Keeley.
Series: Princeton modern Greek studies
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933 -- Homes and haunts -- Egypt -- Alexandria; Greeks -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History; Alexandria (Egypt) -- In literature
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-198) and indexes.
Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1976.