A poet writing in this city described how a man’s sorrows press upon him “more lightly” when “to a friend or fellow traveler he tells his grief.” A group of seven poets from this city inspired the name of the French Pléiade (“pleh-yahd”). A poet from this city was described as standing “at a slight angle to the universe” by an author working with the Red Cross. E.M. Forster corresponded with that poet from this city and helped popularize his largely homoerotic poetry. A poet who worked in this city authored the Aetia (“EYE-tee-yuh”) and a now-lost bibliographic work called the Pinakes (“pih-nah-kees”); “shades” of that poet are mentioned in the opening of an Ezra Pound poem. Callimachus (“cal-ih-mah-kus”) was employed in this city, where Constantine Cavafy wrote “say goodbye to her, the [this city] you are losing” in “The God Abandons Antony.” For 10 points, thousands of scrolls were lost in the 48 BCE burning of what Egyptian city’s library? ■END■
ANSWER: Alexandria [accept Library of Alexandria; accept Alexandrian Pleiad]
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