Keeley, Edmund — Cavafy's Alexandria

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1996. Second Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. From the publisher's blurb, "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." xi [1], 3-224 pp. with full index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine