Cavafy's Alexandria

First edition thus. Second printing. 8vo. Pp. xii, 224. Illustrated wraps, with a cover design by Donald Hatch, featuring a lithograph of the author by Dimitris Mytaras. With chronological tables of composition and publication, principal settings of poems, map of the ancient world of Hellenism, bibliographical note, chapter notes, and indices. Expanded edition with a new preface and epilogue.

Alexandria as the literal, metaphoric, sensual, and mythical city. The first full length critical study of the great modern Greek poet and an in-depth examination of his special relationship to the city of his residence. "[A]s marvellous a guide to the imagined Alexandria as E. M. Forster's is to the real one." –Joseph Brodsky, New York Review of Books