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Cavafy's Alexandria: Expanded Edition

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Cavafy's Alexandria: Expanded Edition
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Edmund Keeley
SeriesPrinceton Modern Greek Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 197
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780691044989
ClassificationsDewey:889.132
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Edition Revised edition
Illustrations 1 Maps

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 31 December 1995
Publication Country United States

Description

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 the heart of 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.

Author Biography

Edmund Keeley (1928-2022) was the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, emeritus, and professor emeritus of creative writing at Princeton University. His books include Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth and The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair (both Princeton).

Reviews

Winner of the 2000 Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, PEN American Center "Attempting a comprehensive and coherent critical sighting of Cavafy's life work, Keeley classifies and analyzes the entire canon, including the more significant unpublished poems, and in this context comments with sensitivity and clarity on some of the best-known and most difficult poems."--George Economou, The New York Times Book Review "This book is as marvelous a guide to the imagined Alexandria as E. M. Forster's is to the real one."--Joseph Brodsky, New York Review of Books "Keeley has performed an invaluable service in tracing [Cavafy's] deliberate arrangement of his work. In this way such seminal poems as The God Abandons Antony or The City are revealed in their full thematic importance, while many others when seen in their proper place in the design take on a significance which they lacked in isolation."--Ian Scott-Kilvert, The Times Higher Education Supplement