Author: KEELEY,EDMUND
Title: Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress
Description: Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press. 1976, 1st.US Edition. (ISBN: 0674104307) Hardcover. Book, 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, Keeley describes Cavafy' literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 196p. bibliography.index. Fine/Near Fine - Slight Chip.

Keywords: 0674104307 Alexandria Egypt Poetry Modern Greek Cavafy Alexandria Cavafy, C.P.


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