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Keeley,Edmund : Cavafy's Alexandria

Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1996

ISBN 0691044988

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"s literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 224p. bibliography.index. Book. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Soft cover

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