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Ancient Egypt in Poetry

An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Verse

Donald P Ryan editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The American University in Cairo Press

Published:3rd Nov '16

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A collection of romantic verse celebrating Egypt's monumental ruins and pharaonic civilization

Egypt's ancient pyramids, temples, and tombs along the Nile, which have inspired artists and writers for centuries, have also inspired poets--and particularly in the nineteenth century when romanticism was at its height. Egyptologist Donald Ryan here collects a wide variety of English verse composed by British, Irish, and North American poets fired up by the magic, the splendor, or the desolation of the pharaonic ruins and their echoes of a distant history. Includes verse by: Robert Browning, Lord Byron, John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, John Ruskin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alfred Tennyson, Lady Wilde, and many more.

ISBN: 9789774167836

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 259g

160 pages