Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of A Myth in Progress

Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of A Myth in Progress by Edmund Keeley. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780674104303.

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 Cavafys literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth.