Cavafy's Alexandria

Cavafy's Alexandria
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 0691044988
ISBN-13 : 9780691044989
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Book Synopsis Cavafy's Alexandria by : Edmund Keeley

Download or read book Cavafy's Alexandria written by Edmund Keeley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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