Langbeschreibung
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, Edmund Keeley describes Cavafy's literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface to the Paperback Edition Introduction: The Literal City 2The Metaphoric City 3The Sensual City 4Mythical Alexandria 5The World of Hellenism 6The Universal Perspective 7Epilogue: Voice, Perspective, and Context Appendixes Bibliographical Note Notes Indexes