Ancient Egypt in Poetry: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Verse

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich and Alfred Tennyson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 977416783X
• ISBN13: 9789774167836
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 6.4"