Cavafy's Alexandria by Edmund Keeley

Cavafy's Alexandria

Edmund Keeley

240 pages first pub 1976 (view editions)

nonfiction poetry informative inspiring medium-paced
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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 firs...

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