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Informationen zum Autor Donald P. Ryan is an Egyptologist and archaeologist who has excavated for several years in the Valley of the Kings. Klappentext 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. Vorwort A collection of romantic verse celebrating Egypt's monumental ruins and pharaonic civilization Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction A Dream Of Egypt: Water, Sky & Earth Egypt, Thomas Bailey Aldrich Egypt, Alfred Tennyson A Dream of Egypt, Evelyn Douglas Egypt, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Dream of Egypt, John Todhunter Egypt and the Nile, Bernard Barton The Nile, James Leigh Hunt To the Nile, John Keats To the Nile, Percy Bysshe Shelley The Lotus of the Nile, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton To the Nile, Bayard Taylor The Desert, Mathilde Blind Inevitable Death, Michael Field Ruins and Artifacts Egypt’s Might Is Fallen Down, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge The Eyes of the Nile, Lydia Howard Sigourney Ruins, Jane Francesca Wilde Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias: On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Horace Smith Shelley’s Ozymandias, Richard Watson Gilder Sonnet LX, Robert Ferguson Before the Statue of Chephren, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley To a Pair of Egyptian Slippers, Edwin Arnold An Egyptian Gem, Thomas Stephens Collier The Papyrus, Robert Treat Paine A Papyrus Hunt, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley The Obelisk, Richard Watson Gilder The Obelisk During The Great Frost -1881, Mathilde Blind Cleopatra’s Needle, Alfred Tennyson Up & Down The Nile Alexandria, Nicholas Michell Sais, Richard Chenevix Trench Heliopolis, Joseph Ellis The Dream-City Of Khuenaten, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley The Sons of Cush, William Lisle Bowles Thebes, Seymour Green Wheeler Benjamin Luxor, Richard Monckton Milnes The Theban Plain, Charles Dent Bell The Colossi on the Plain, Mathilde Blind Written on the Plains of Thebes, John William Burgon The Twin Colossi, Charles Dent Bell Syene, Joseph Ellis The Pyramids & Sphinx Morning Mist on the Great Pyramid, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley The Pyramid, Samuel Beadle The Pyramids, John Tabb The Great Pyramid, Hermann Melville To Peter Cooper, Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta The Great Pyramid, Isaac McLellan The Sphinx, Mathilde Blind The Sphinx, Henry Howard Brownell Sonnet XL, Robert Ferguson The Sphinx Speaks, Francis Saltus Saltus Personalities Where are the Great and Sceptred Kings? Charles Dent Bell Cheops, George Gordon Noel Byron Queen Hatasu, Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley Rame...
