Ancient Egypt In Poetry: An Anthology Of Nineteenth-century Verse

by Donald P. Ryan

2021-01-09 00:44:09

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... Read more
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 versecomposed 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. Less

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File size6.5 X 4.5 X 0.98 in
Print pages160
PublisherThe American University in Cairo Press
Publication date October 22, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9789774167836

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