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Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress
by Keeley,Edmund
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine - Slight Chip
- ISBN 10
- 0674104307
- ISBN 13
- 9780674104303
- Seller
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About This Item
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1976 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.US Edition.. 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' literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 196p. bibliography.index.
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31405
- Title
- Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress
- Author
- Keeley,Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine - Slight Chip
- Edition
- 1st.US Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0674104307
- ISBN 13
- 9780674104303
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge MA
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- ALEXANDRIA EGYPT POETRY MODERN GREEK CAVAFY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Egypt; Alexandria; Cavafy, C.P;
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