Shattered Visage Lies... : Nineteenth Century Poetry Inspired by Ancient Egypt
by Ryan, Donald P.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-03-30
Publisher(s): David Brown Book Co
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Summary
This book is a major (indeed the only) anthology of 19th century poetry about Ancient Egypt, edited by Egyptologist Professor Donald P. Ryan. It brings together, in a series of themed sections, verses by well-known poets - such as Shelley, Keats, Byron and Longfellow - with those by less-famous but no less fascinating writers. The editor provides a series of commentaries that set the poems in their archaeological and historical context and gives short biographical descriptions of the poets featured here. The book is illustrated with 19th century line drawings that complement the poems.
Table of Contents
| Egypt | p. 2 |
| Egypt | p. 3 |
| A return to Egypt | p. 4 |
| Egypt's might is tumbled down | p. 7 |
| The "eyes of the Nile" | p. 8 |
| Ruins (extracts) | p. 9 |
| Ozymandias | p. 10 |
| Ozymandias | p. 11 |
| Shelley's "Ozymandias" | p. 12 |
| Egypt and the Nile (extract) | p. 15 |
| The Nile | p. 17 |
| To the Nile | p. 18 |
| To the Nile | p. 19 |
| Egypt | p. 20 |
| Inevitable death | p. 22 |
| Queen Hatasu | p. 26 |
| Rameses II | p. 27 |
| Rameses II (Boulak museum) | p. 28 |
| Death of Cleopatra | p. 29 |
| Antony to Cleopatra | p. 31 |
| Cleopatra | p. 33 |
| The priestess of athor | p. 40 |
| Karnak (extract) | p. 41 |
| Karnak by moonlight | p. 42 |
| Aboo Simbel | p. 43 |
| The burden of Egypt (extract) | p. 44 |
| At Philae | p. 46 |
| Don Juan (extract) | p. 52 |
| Morning mist on the great pyramid | p. 53 |
| To Peter Cooper | p. 55 |
| The Sphinx | p. 56 |
| The Sphynx | p. 57 |
| The Sphinx speaks | p. 60 |
| The Theban plain | p. 63 |
| The Colossi of the plain | p. 64 |
| Written on the plain of Thebes | p. 65 |
| The Egyptian tomb | p. 69 |
| The tombs of the kings | p. 71 |
| In a king's tomb | p. 78 |
| Secret of an Egyptian tomb | p. 81 |
| The Memphian mummy | p. 82 |
| Address to a mummy | p. 84 |
| Opening the mummy | p. 88 |
| To a pair of Egyptian slippers | p. 92 |
| A Papyrus hunt | p. 96 |
| The obelisk | p. 98 |
| To the obelisk during vthe great frost, 1881 | p. 99 |
| The plagues of Egypt | p. 102 |
| The first-born of Egypt | p. 103 |
| On a great deliverance | p. 106 |
| The destruction of Pharaoh | p. 107 |
| The flight into Egypt | p. 108 |
| In Egyptian Thebes | p. 113 |
| Ancient Egypt | p. 114 |
| Hermes Trismegistus | p. 116 |
| Herodotus in Egypt | p. 121 |
| Welcome to Egypt | p. 122 |
| Egypt unvisited | p. 123 |
| Pelters of pyramids | p. 124 |
| The naughty little Egyptian | p. 127 |
| The secret of the Sphinx | p. 131 |
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