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

Middle East Travel Anthologies

by Donald P. Ryan (Editor), Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 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 history. Includes verse 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.

Genres: Poetry

160 pages, Hardcover

Published October 22, 2016

About the author

Donald P. Ryan is an Egyptologist and archaeologist who has spent more than twenty years excavating in the Valley of the Kings.

―The American University in Cairo Press