Princeton, NJ 08540
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Areas of Specialization
Creative Writing (Fiction, Translation)
English and American Literature
Modern Greek Literature
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
Myth, History, and Contemporary Experience in Modern Greek, English, and American Poetry
Readings in Modern Greek Poetry (in translation)
Readings in Contemporary Greek Poetry (in Greek)
Prof. Edmund L. Keeley
Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English Emeritus; Director Emeritus, Hellenic Studies
Princeton University
Department of English /Creative Writing /Hellenic Studies
Degrees
Ph.D. 1952 Oxford (Comparative Literature)
B.A. 1949 Princeton (English)
Principal Publications
Inventing Paradise: the Greek Journey, 1943-47. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999.
The Essential Cavafy. With Philip Sherrard and George Savidis. Hopewell, N.J.: Ecco Press, 1995.
Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
George Seferis: Collected Poems. With Philip Sherrard. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Revised edition, 1996.
Cavafy's Alexandria. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. Revised edition: Princeton University Press, 1996.
C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. With Philip Sherrard and George Savidis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Revised edition, 1993.