Edmund Leroy Keeley (born February 5, 1928 in Damascus, Syria) is an author, translator, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University. He is a noted expert on Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy.
His father was the American diplomat James Hugh Keeley. He spent his childhood in Canada, Greece, and Washington, D. C. before earning his B.A. from Princeton University in 1948. In 1952 he received a Doctorate in Comparative Literature from Oxford University where he studied with a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
He served as president of PEN American Center from 1992 to 1994.
He retired from a long career at Princeton University in 1994.
Six Poets of Modern Greece (With Philip Sherrard) Alfred A. Knopf, 1961
Vassilis Vassilikos, 'The Plant,' 'The Well,' 'The Angel': A Trilogy (With Mary Keeley) Knopf, 1964.
Four Greek Poets (With Philip Sherrard) Penguin Books, 1965
George Seferis, Collected Poems: 1924-1955 (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1967 - ISBN 0-6910-1300-4
C. P. Cavafy, Passions and Ancient Days (with George Savidis) Hogarth Press, 1972 ISBN 0-7012-0351-X
Modern Greek Writers: Solomos, Calvos, Matesis, Palamas, Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Seferis, Elytis (With Peter Bien) Princeton University Press, 1972
C. P. Cavafy, Selected Poems (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1972
Odysseus Elytis, The Axion Esti (with George Savidis) Pittsburgh University Press, 1972
C. P. Cavafy, Three Poems of Passion (with George Savidis) Plain Wrapper Press, 1975
C. P. Cavafy, Collected Poems (With Philip Sherrard and George Savidis) Princeton University Press, 1975, revised edition, Princeton University Press, 1992. - ISBN 0-6910-1537-6
Angelos Sikelianos, Selected Poems (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1979
Odysseus Elytis, Selected Poems Viking-Penguin, 1981 - ISBN 0-6702-9246-X
The Dark Crystal: An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry (With Philip Sherrard) Denise Harvey & CO, 1981
Voices of Modern Greece: Selected Poems of C.P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1981 - ISBN 0-6910-1382-9
Yannis Ritsos, Return and Other Poems Parallel Editions, 1983
C. P. Cavafy, A Selection of Poems (With Philip Sherrard) Camberwell Press, 1985
The Legacy of R.P. Blackmur: Essays, Memoirs, Texts (with Edward T. Cone and Joseph Frank) Ecco Press, 1987 - ISBN 0-8800-1152-1
Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses Princeton University Press, 1991 - ISBN 0-6910-1908-8
The Essential Cavafy (With Philip Sherrard) Ecco Press, 1995 - ISBN 0-6910-1491-4
George Seferis, Collected Poems, (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press, 1995
George Seferis and Edmund Keeley: Correspondence, 1951-1971 Princeton University Library, 1997 - ISBN 0-87811-042-9
A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000: Bilingual Edition (with Peter Bien, Peter Constantine, and Karen Van Dyck) Cosmos Publishing, 2004 - ISBN 1-9324-5500-0
Selected Poems Of Odysseus Elytis (with Philip Sherrard) Anvil Press, 2007 - ISBN 0-8564-6355-8
The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (co-editor) W. W. Norton, 2009
