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Ancient Egypt in Poetry: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Verse
Donald P. Ryan
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Ryan, Donald P (Pacific Lutheran University USA). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 211 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260.
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 ... 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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774167836
SKU
V9789774167836
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About Donald P. Ryan
Donald P. Ryan is an Egyptologist and archaeologist who has excavated for several years in the Valley of the Kings.
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