Cavafy's Alexandria - Expanded Edition

About the author

Edmund Keeley (1928-2022) was the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, emeritus, and professor emeritus of creative writing at Princeton University. His books include Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth and The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair (both Princeton).

Summary

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. This work on Cavafy in English describes Cavafy's literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth.

Product details

• Authors: Edmund Keeley, Keeley Edmund
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.1995
• EAN: 9780691044989
• ISBN: 978-0-691-04498-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 396 g
• Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Egypt, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Modern Greek, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets