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.