Literary studies: poetry and poets Books

Book SynopsisHasta la fecha invisibilizada, la poética comparada de mujeres es una nueva disciplina transversal en los Estudios Literarios cuyos textos, teoría, metodología y práctica transformarán por complete la lectura y la crítica de poesía en lo sucesivo. Rendered invisible until now, Comparative Women’s Poetics is a new transversal discipline in Literary Studies whose texts, theories, methodology and practice will completely transform the reading and criticism of poetry in the future.Trade Review“Poéticas Comparadas de Mujeres reúne un elenco poético en el que temáticas como el enfoque geocrítico, el pensamiento filosófico-lírico, la reescritura del mito, la maternidad, el pensamiento ecológico, la memoria histórica, género y sexualidad no hegemónicos y pluralidad feminista diaspórica se abordan en once ensayos y una introducción a modo de manifiesto en pro de la nueva disciplina. Poetas, profesoras y críticas han aunado esfuerzos para ofrecer un panorama interseccional de relaciones y miradas cruzadas, de mestizaje e hibridación, que subraya la necesidad de abrir las fronteras para incursionarse en periferias y extraterritorialidades. Llegar al centro desde el hors champ, el afuera que se sitúa a la intemperie de élites y lobbies, ha constituido un astuto ejercicio de construcción de coaliciones y una ilusionante apuesta por que lenguaje, corporeidad, política, experiencia e historia sigan confluyendo en el trabajo de las poetas a futuro, con mayor visibilidad y presencia, como corresponde a día de hoy.” - Noni Benegas, Guaraguao, 2023.Table of ContentsNotas biobibliográficas de los autores Introducción 1 Una Poética de los lares: El lugar del lugar en cuatro poetas hispanoamericanas  Niall Binns 2 Marosa Di Giorgio, visión en verde: Un análisis comparativo con las poéticas de Olga Orozco y Emily Dickinson  Emilia Conejo 3 El hijo con su cuerpo en el mundo: Una aproximación a Blanca Varela y Sharon Olds  Olga Muñoz Carrasco 4 Gabriela Mistral y Concha Méndez: Experiencias de la maternidad  Ramón Muñiz Sarmiento y Renée M. Silverman 5 Filosofía lírica: La indetenible quietud del ser en la poesía de Clara Janés y Jan Zwicky  Leonor M. Martínez Serrano 6 Mitos y ritos de mujer en Juana Castro y Margaret Atwood  Javier Martín Párraga 7 La fluidez del Mundo: Lorine Niedecker, Ida Vitale y la ecología sensible  Esther Sánchez-Pardo 8 La interlocutora en las poéticas sáficas de Cristina Peri Rossi y Laia López Manrique  Sara Torres 9 Apuntalar la historia mediante la memoria: Las poéticas de la reconstrucción de Marlene Nourbese Philip y Jean Arasanayagam  Isabel Alonso Breto 10 Loretta Collins-Klobah y Jennifer Rahim: Versos para la construcción colectiva de un nuevo mundo  María Grau Pereojan 11 La poesía de la poeta jamaicana Tanya Shirley y la poeta jamaicana canadiense Pamela Mordecai: Una llamada a la acción  Stephanie McKenzie Índice

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains the papers of the "Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry 4 : Apollonius Rhodius" (Groningen, 2-4 September 1998). During the workshop a first draft of the papers was discussed and commented on by an international group of specialists in the field of Hellenistic poetry. The volume contains a wide range of articles and thus provides a survey of current developments in research on Apollonius. Several articles show how recent developments in modern literary criticism or linguistics can lead to new or more refined insights in our understanding of Apollonius' poetry. Others show how a renewed analysis of selected passages can contribute to our overall view of this poet. This volume is the fourth of a series. Every two years a Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry takes place at the University of Groningen, the papers of which are published in the series "Hellenistica Groningana".

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains the papers of the 'Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry 6: Callimachus' (Groningen 2002). During the workshop a first draft of the papers was discussed and commented on by an international group of specialists in the field of Hellenistic poetry. The volume contains a wide range of articles. It provides a survey of current developments in research on one of the most influential authors of Hellenistic poetry and reflects the large amount of scholarly interest in Callimachus during the last decade. In the papers there is a particular focus on issues of metapoetics, intertextuality, fictional orality, the impact of poetic collections and the function of Callimachus' poetry in Ptolemaic Alexandria as well as an interest in the reception of Callimachus' poetry among Roman poets. The volume is part of a series. Every two years a Workshop on Hellenistic poetry takes place at the University of Groningen, the papers of which are published in the series 'Hellenistica Groningana'.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains the papers of the 'Seventh Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry: Beyond the Canon' (Groningen 2004). During the workshop a first draft of each of the papers was commented on by an international group of specialists in the field of Hellenistic poetry. A number of previous workshops was devoted largely to the major Hellenistic poets. This recent workshop explores what the poets 'beyond the canon' of Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius Rhodius had to offer and it discussed questions of canonicity in Hellenistic poetry on a more general level. The papers in the present volume deal with a large range of authors and genres: Herondas, Lycophron, Euphorion, Hermesianax, Cercidas, Crates of Thebes and Alexander Aetolus, and the didactic poetry of Aratus, Nicander and Ps.-Scymnus, the later bucolic poems of Moschus and Bion and the pattern poems of Simias. At the same time special attention is given to the hexameter in inscribed Hellenistic epigram, which is compared to that of poets in the environment of the Museum of Alexandria. This volume is part of a series. Every two years a 'Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry' takes place at the University of Groningen, the papers of which are published in 'Hellenistica Groningana'.

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Book SynopsisThe earliest European specimens of visual poetry are found in the literature of the ancient Greeks: these are six famous technopaegnia, which were composed between the end of the fourth century BC and the first half of the second century AD by poets such as Simias of Rhodes, a scholar-poet and precursor of Callimachus, or Iulius Vestinus, an important official at Hadrian's court. The present book provides an edition of the six Greek figure poems, which is accompanied by an extensive commentary and the introduction to various aspects of this mini-genre. This is the first such comprehensive treatment of the six technopaegnia in 125 years.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to Hellenistic poetry in the context of the contemporary world of third century Alexandria and beyond. This topic fits in with the increasing interest in the role of literature in ancient society in recent research, which has already been applied successfully to various aspects of Hellenistic poetry. The subject also has an added interest because for a long time there has been a tendency to regard this kind of poetry as art for art’s sake, a kind of autonomous poetry and display of virtuosity among scholar-poets, who indulged in being as sophisticated as possible without being in touch with the real world. This view has been rightly challenged in recent years and the articles in this volume reflect this new approach, as the authors investigate the ways in which Hellenistic poetry, played a part in its social and cultural context.

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Book SynopsisThe popular romances of medieval England are fantasy stories of love at first sight; brave knights seeking adventure; evil stewards; passionate, lusty women; hand-to-hand combat; angry dragons; and miracles. They are not only fun but indicate a great deal about the ideals and values of the society they were written in. Yet the genre of Middle English romance has only recently begun to attain critical respectability, dismissed as "vayn carpynge" in its own age and generally treated by twentieth-century critics as a junk-food form of medieval literature. Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas has been assumed to be a satire of the romances' clichéd formulas and unskilled authors. But the romances evidently enjoyed popularity among all English classes, and the genre itself continued to flourish and evolve down to present-day novels and movies. Whatever Chaucer and his contemporaries thought of romances, they would have needed some personal familiarity with the stories and texts for comic tales such as Sir Thopas to be understood.A century ago, Beowulf faced the same problem that the Middle English romances still face: no modern translations were published because few had heard of the poem- because there were no modern translations published. Where the romances have been printed, they have normally been reproduced as critical editions in their original language, or translated into heavily abridged children's versions, but few have been published as scholarly close line translations with notes. This book is an attempt to remedy this by making some of these romances available to the student or lay reader who lacks specialized knowledge of Middle English, with the hope that a clearer understanding of the poems will encourage not only enjoyment but also further study.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Medieval Romances After centuries of being dismissed "a wit-besotting trash of books" written by "literary hacks", the Middle English romances have only recently been recognized as intelligent and evocative texts helping to illuminate medieval insular culture. This book hopes to further such a dialogue with six romances representative of different themes and origins. Each chapter is a facing translation, featuring the original Middle English text on the left of the page and an academic close-line translation into Present Day English on the right, accompanied by explanatory notes and sources. Amis and Amiloun (date: c. 1330) A saintly 'bro-mance' about two knights who pledge faith to each other, a loyalty tested when one is caught in a lie after being seduced by the king's daughter and the other must break his word to save his friend's life-a decision followed by heavenly punishment and a miracle of mercy. Athelston (date: c. 1380) A darker romance from the troubled time of Richard II about a capricious, gullible king who believes an accusation of treason against his blood-brother made by a jealous competitor, a murderous situation only faced by the archbishop's miraculous tests and a hard-working messenger. Floris and Blancheflor (date: c. 1280) Here appearing for the first time in full with a missing introduction supplied from an earlier French version, a light and entertaining "roman rose" about a boy of a Muslim king who falls in love with his Saxon playmate and travels to Arabia to rescue her from the Emir's marriage plans. Havelok the Dane (date: c. 1285) A dramatic 'male Cinderella' romance where Havelok, prince of Denmark, is rescued as a boy from an usurper's plans for murder by a fisherman and brought to England, where he grows up to marry the dispossessed princess, brings revenge to both nations, and regains the throne. King Horn (date: c. 1280) A seafaring romance where prince Horn is exiled by invading Saracens and sails to a new land where King Murray raises him, complicated when he is accused of deflowering the princess and banished to Ireland; after avenging his father he returns to settle scores and rescue his lady. Sir Degare (date: c. 1330) Possibly from a Breton lay, a mysterious tale of a princess raped by a handsome fairy who sends away her baby to be raised by priests; after proving himself as a knight, Degare unwittingly marries his mother, but when the error is recognized he seeks out glory and his father. About the author: Dr. Ken Eckert is Assistant Professor of English at Hanyang University (ERICA), Ansan, Korea, where he teaches undergraduate courses in English literature and graduate-level composition theory. He studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (PhD, 2011), with a dissertation in Chaucer and medieval romance; Memorial University of Newfoundland (MA, 2001), with a thesis and translation of Beowulf; and Concordia University of Edmonton (BA, 1990).

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Book SynopsisRaphael’s Poetics applies strategies of interpretation implicit in antique poetry to the visual art of the Renaissance, concentrating on Raphael’s Roman works and their cultural context. Until recently, scholarly discussion was dominated by the application of Renaissance literary theory to visual arts, obscuring the fact that Renaissance humanists who contributed to literary theory were, in the first instance and almost without exception, poets rather than theorists. To counter the tendency towards theory, the hermeneutic rules implicit in their poetry and thus the poetry itself is brought to the fore by this study as a hermeneutical tool. By focusing on the interaction between the work of art and its public, Rijser offers innovative interpretations of canonical works and important insights into the cultural history of the early modern period. Reconstructing a visual grammar and defining the context in which Raphael’s art functioned, this study illuminates contemporary significances that have since been lost.Trade Review"A masterful accomplishment. Raphael’s Poetics could not have been written except by someone steeped in the Classics, in the world of Renaissance humanism and of Western aesthetics in general. The book deepened my appreciation of matters with which I was familiar and aroused it when the subject was new. I have nothing but praise.' - Michael C. J. Putnam, Brown University

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Book SynopsisWhy do governments still negotiate with trade unions and employers in the design of labour market and welfare reforms despite the steady decline of trade union membership almost everywhere in Europe? Social Concertation in Times of Austerity investigates the political underpinnings of social concertation in this new context with a focus on the regulation of labour mobility and unemployment protection in Austria and Switzerland. It shows that the involvement of organised interests in policymaking is a strategy of compromise-building used by governments when they are faced with party-political divisions, or when unpopular reforms are likely to have risky electoral consequences.Trade ReviewAfonso’s interesting comparison of labor mobility (an EU issue) and unemployment policy (a domestic issue) sheds light on why governments sometimes fall back on corporatist institutions, even in the current economic climate. And that reason is, in a word, political: because governments need the cover of such bargaining when they face electoral risks. Prof. Pepper Culpepper, European University Institute, Florence Not so long ago social concertation arrangements were considered an industrial relations phenomenon which was functionally linked either to the institutional endowment of particular countries or to the problem load they faced. Through an analysis of labor market reforms in Austria and Switzerland, Afonso’s book shows that social concertation is an eminently political phenomenon. In so doing this interesting book contributes to move comparative political economy research away from rationalistic accounts of optimal designs and to bring it closer to an historically-contingent and actor-centered reconstruction of institutional trajectories. Prof. Lucio Baccaro, University of GenevaTable of ContentsSocial concertation in times of austerity - 2 Table of Contents - 6 List of Tables and Figures - 8 List of Abbreviations - 10 Acknowledgements - 14 1 The Strange Survival of Social Concertation in Times of Austerity - 16 2 Social Concertation as a Political Strategy - 26 3 European Integration, Domestic Politicsnd Social Concertation - 54 4 Methods and Cases - 76 5 The Context of Social Concertation in Switzerland and Austria - 92 6 Social Concertation and Cross-Border Labour Mobility - 112 7 Social Concertation and Unemployment Policy Reforms - 156 8 Synthesis and Comparative Outlook - 196 List of Interviews - 216 Notes - 218 References - 224 Index - 254

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Book SynopsisA joyful rendition of an iconic text'' - Arundhathi Subramaniam Saundarya Lahari is a popular Sanskrit hymn celebrating the power and beauty of Sakti, the primordial goddess. In one hundred verses, it underlines the centrality of the feminine principle in Indian thought. Attributed to Adi Sankaracarya, Saundarya Lahari is a valuable source for understanding tantric ideas. Every verse is associated with yantras and encoded mantras for tantric rituals, and specific verses in the hymn are considered potent for acquiring good health, lovers, and even poetic skills. Mani Rao''s Saundarya Lahari is an inspired, lyrical translation that renders the esoteric immediate and the distant near.

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Book SynopsisChinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs offers fifteen essays on the triptych of poetry + translation + Chinese. The collection has three parts: "The Translator's Take," "Theoretics," and "Impact." The conversation stretches from queer-feminist engagement with China's newest poetry to philosophical and philological reflections on its oldest, and from Tang- and Song-dynasty classical poetry in Western languages to Baudelaire and Celan in Chinese. Translation is taken as an interlingual and intercultural act, and the essays foreground theoretical expositions and the practice of translation in equal but not opposite measure. Poetry has a transforming yet ever-acute relevance in Chinese culture, and this makes it a good entry point for studying Chinese-foreign encounters. Pushing past oppositions that still too often restrict discussions of translation-form versus content, elegance versus accuracy, and "the original" versus "the translated" - this volume brings a wealth of new thinking to the interrelationships between poetry, translation, and China.Trade Review"Together the essays in Chinese Poetry and Translation give voice to a wonderful group of poets, scholars, and translators, many of whom wear multiple hats. It is a good introduction to the range of issues – from equivalence to local/national identity – central to studies of poetry in cross-cultural contexts. The main currents and counter-currents weaving across the essays mirror the debates and contentions that have constantly flared up over the translation of poetry into and out of China. Poetry may be a marginalized cultural terrain that (in van Crevel’s words) ‘no one cares about’ in today’s world, but this promises great freedom and agency, and it remains an embodiment of pure spiritual value that for this very reason touches closely on power and politics."- Wen Jin, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Translation and Literature, 30.3 (2021) "This is a very rich collection of essays showcasing a range of approaches to the study and practice of Chinese poetry translation. [...] In addition to the valuable research presented in most of the chapters, this book should also be highly useful for teaching about Chinese poetry, and for getting students to think about what it means to translate, or to read in translation."- Michel Hockx, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) "The fascinating, diverse essays in this collection shed new light on the complexities of Chinese poetry and translation. They are both entertaining and erudite, a rare combination."- Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick and University of Glasgow "Ambitious in scope and delightful to read, this book perceptively traces the dynamic, multi-directional interchange between languages and cultures that allows us to become visible and legible to one another."- Géraldine Fiss, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors Introduction: The Weird Third Thing Maghiel van Crevel and Lucas Klein Conventions Part One: The Translator's Take 1. Sitting with Discomfort: A Queer-Feminist Approach to Translating Yu Xiuhua Jenn Marie Nunes 2. Working with Words: Poetry, Translation, and Labor Eleanor Goodman 3. Translating Great Distances: The Case of the Shijing Joseph R. Allen 4. Purpose and Form: On the Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry Wilt L. Idema Part Two: Theoretics 5. Embodiment in the Translation of Chinese Poetry Nick Admussen 6. Translating Theory: Bei Dao, Pasternak, and Russian Formalism Jacob Edmond 7. Narrativity in Lyric Translation: English Translation of Chinese Ci Poetry Zhou Min 8. Sublimating Sorrow: How to Embrace Contradiction in Translating the "Li Sao" Nicholas Morrow Williams 9. Mediation Is Our Authenticity: Dagong Poetry and the Shijing in Translation Lucas Klein Part Three: Impact 10. Ecofeminism avant la lettre: Chen Jingrong and Baudelaire Liansu Meng 11. The Trope of Life and the Translation of Western Modernist Poetry in Hong Kong Chris Song 12. Lyrical Montage: Modernist Poetry in Taiwan through the Lens of Translation Tara Coleman 13. Celan's "Deathfugue" in Chinese: A Polemic about Translation and Everything Else Joanna Krenz 14. Trauma in Translation: Liao Yiwu's "Massacre" in English and German Rui Kunze 15. A Noble Art, and a Tricky Business: Translation Anthologies of Chinese Poetry Maghiel van Crevel

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Book SynopsisThis book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution of Western gender roles, the Italian Renaissance was a watershed moment, when a confluence of cultural developments disrupted centuries of Aristotelian, binary thinking. Men and women living through this upheaval exploited Petrarchism’s capacity for subjective expression and experimentation - as well as its status as the most accessible of genres - in order to imagine new gendered possibilities in realms such as marriage, war, and religion. One of the first studies to examine writing by early modern Italian men and women together, it is also a revolutionary testament to poetry’s work in the world. These poets’ works challenge the traditional boundaries drawn around lyric’s utility. They show us how poems could be sites of resistance against the pervading social order - how they are texts capable not only of recording social history, but also of shaping it.Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgments PART I 1.The People’s Petrarch: Early Modern Italian Readers and the Gender of Celebrity 2.Context: Men and Women in Dialogue in Late-Renaissance Italy PART II 1.Ventriloquized Lyric 2.Correspondence Lyric 3.Religious Lyric 4.Conjugal Lyric Afterword

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Book SynopsisDante’s Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time. Combining medieval history, food studies, and literary criticism, Dante’s Gluttons historicizes food and eating in Dante, beginning in his earliest collected poetry and arriving at the end of his major work. For Dante, the consumption of food is not a frivolity, but a crux of life, and gluttony is the abdication of civic and spiritual responsibility and a danger to both the individual body and soul, as well as the greater collective. This book establishes how one of the world’s preeminent authors uses the intimacy and universality of food as a touchstone, forging a community bound by a gastronomic language rooted in the deeply human relationship with material sustenance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Dante’s Gluttony 2. Convivial Gluttony 3. Infernal Gluttony 4. Purgatorial Gluttony 5. Heavenly Gluttony Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLinguists estimate that around 7,000 languages exist, but many are under threat. Translingualism, Translation and Caribbean Poetry is a multi-language collection comprising over fifty translations of the poem 'Lenga di mama' ('Mother Tongue') by Curaçao-born poet Hilda de Windt Ayoubi, published here alongside three additional poems each providing a different perspective on the mother tongue. De Windt Ayoubi's sharp, socially charged poetry has inspired translations from across the world. Collected here for the first time, they serve to protect the native languages and cultures – particularly the minority languages – of their translators, who range from expert linguists to speakers of underrepresented languages. In his accompanying essay, Pieter C. Muysken considers the role of translation in addressing the urgent cultural concern of language loss and revitalization where he discusses bilingual translations and mass translations. Complete with maps, language profiles, interviews with the translators, and the poet’s essay on Papiamento, this collection explores the emotional, cultural and intellectual importance of language conservation through poetry and translation.Table of ContentsHow to Navigate This Book / Kon Nabega den e Buki aki Acknowledgements Preface Part 1 Introducing the Mother Tongue Introdukshon di Lenga di Mama Papiamento and Guene/Gueni: The Importance of Translation and Poetry for the Development and Conservation of Mother Tongue Papiamentu i Guene/Gueni: E Importansia di Tradukshon i Poesia pa Desaroyo i Konservashon di Lenga di Mama (Hilda de Windt Ayoubi) Part 2 The Poem “Lenga di Mama” and its Translations, Comments and Language Descriptions E Poema “Lenga di Mama” i su Tradukshonnan i Komentario i Deskripshon di e Idiomanan (Pieter C. Muysken and Hilda de Windt Ayoubi) Creole Languages / Idioma Krioyo (Pieter C. Muysken. Jamaican Creole by Matthew Smith) African and Asian Languages / Idioma Afrikano i Asiatiko (Pieter C. Muysken) Amerindian Languages / Idioma Amerindio (Pieter C. Muysken) Constructed Languages / Idioma Konstrui (Herman Deke.nink) Germanic Languages / Idioma Germaniko (Pieter C. Muysken) Romance Languages / Idioma Romaniko (Pieter C. Muysken and Hilda de Windt Ayoubi (for Catalan)) Other Indo-European Languages /Otro Idiomanan Indo-Europeo (Pieter C. Muysken) Other Languages of Europe /Otro idiomanan di Europa (Pieter C. Muysken) Semitic Languages /Idioma Semitiko (Pieter C. Muysken and Alessandro Mengozzi (for the Aramaic languages and Hebrew)) Part 3 The Poem “E ‘papiá’ di Papiamentu” and its Translations E Poema “E ‘papiá’ di Papiamentu” i su Tradukshonnan (The Translations and Editing of the Poem Hilda de Windt Ayoubi and Leontine Kuster (for French)) Part 4 The Poem “Papiamentu pa Semper” and its Translations E Poema “Papiamentu pa Semper” i su Tradukshonnan (The Translations and Editing of the Poem Hilda de Windt Ayoubi and Pieter Muysken (for Dutch)) Part 5 The Poem “Riba Ala di Lenga di Mama” and its Translations E Poema “Riba Ala di Lenga di Mama” i su Tradukshonnan (The Translations and Editing of the Poem Hilda de Windt Ayoubi, Pieter Muysken (for Dutch), Ingrid Donati (for Italian)) Part 6 Commentary / Komentario Translation, Language Endangerment and Revitalization, Bilingual Texts Tradukshon, Peliger pa Perdida di idioma i Revitalisashon di Idioma, Teksto Bilingual (Pieter C. Muysken) In Memoriam Professor Dr. Pieter C. Muysken / Na Memoria di Profesor Dr. Pieter C. Muysken (Hilda de Windt Ayoubi) Special Thanks Also / Un Danki Speshal Tambe Note on the Authors / Informashon tokante e Outornan Index / Indise

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Book SynopsisKostas Varnalis (1884-1974) was a Bulgarian-born Greek writer and member of the demoticist movement in Greece. An important contemporary of Angelos Sikelianos and Nikos Kazantzakis, Varnalis's floruit as a poet was in the interwar period. His most important texts constitute an ingenious "distortion" of powerful precursors such as Aeschylus, Plato, Xenophon, Aristophanes, Solomos, Rabelais, Goethe, and Flaubert. This issue of The New Griffon presents for the first time an in-depth view of this poet's literary work and life through his letters and papers, given to the Gennadius Library by the poet's daughter in 2001. Theano Michailidou provides an introductory essay on the work of Varnalis and his archives, and another (in English) on Varnalis as a poet, prose writer, and critic. The complete catalogue of the Varnalis Archives forms the core of this volume, including a useful index of personal names and a series of evocative historical photographs of Varnalis.

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Book SynopsisEgypt'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.Table of ContentsIntroductionA Dream Of Egypt: Water, Sky & EarthEgypt, Thomas Bailey AldrichEgypt, Alfred TennysonA Dream of Egypt, Evelyn DouglasEgypt, Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA Dream of Egypt, John TodhunterEgypt and the Nile, Bernard BartonThe Nile, James Leigh HuntTo the Nile, John KeatsTo the Nile, Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Lotus of the Nile, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton EatonTo the Nile, Bayard TaylorThe Desert, Mathilde BlindInevitable Death, Michael FieldRuins and ArtifactsEgypt’s Might Is Fallen Down, Mary Elizabeth ColeridgeThe Eyes of the Nile, Lydia Howard SigourneyRuins, Jane Francesca WildeOzymandias, Percy Bysshe ShelleyOzymandias: On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Horace SmithShelley’s Ozymandias, Richard Watson GilderSonnet LX, Robert FergusonBefore the Statue of Chephren, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyTo a Pair of Egyptian Slippers, Edwin ArnoldAn Egyptian Gem, Thomas Stephens CollierThe Papyrus, Robert Treat PaineA Papyrus Hunt, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyThe Obelisk, Richard Watson GilderThe Obelisk During The Great Frost -1881, Mathilde BlindCleopatra’s Needle, Alfred TennysonUp & Down The NileAlexandria, Nicholas MichellSais, Richard Chenevix TrenchHeliopolis, Joseph EllisThe Dream-City Of Khuenaten, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyThe Sons of Cush, William Lisle BowlesThebes, Seymour Green Wheeler BenjaminLuxor, Richard Monckton MilnesThe Theban Plain, Charles Dent BellThe Colossi on the Plain, Mathilde BlindWritten on the Plains of Thebes, John William BurgonThe Twin Colossi, Charles Dent BellSyene, Joseph EllisThe Pyramids & SphinxMorning Mist on the Great Pyramid, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyThe Pyramid, Samuel BeadleThe Pyramids, John TabbThe Great Pyramid, Hermann MelvilleTo Peter Cooper, Anne Charlotte Lynch BottaThe Great Pyramid, Isaac McLellanThe Sphinx, Mathilde BlindThe Sphinx, Henry Howard BrownellSonnet XL, Robert FergusonThe Sphinx Speaks, Francis Saltus SaltusPersonalitiesWhere are the Great and Sceptred Kings? Charles Dent BellCheops, George Gordon Noel ByronQueen Hatasu, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyRameses II, Charles Dent BellRameses II (Boulak Museum), Charles Dent BellCleopatra, Algernon Charles SwineburneAntony and Cleopatra, William Haines LytleCleopatra Dying, Thomas Stephens CollierDeath of Cleopatra, Alice CaryGods & TemplesThe Priestess of Athor, Evelyn DouglasEgypt, Silas W. MitchellThe Temple of Sais, James Drummond BurnsAt Denderah, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyKarnak, Richard Watson GilderKarnak By Moonlight, Charles Dent BellAt Kom Ombo, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyPhilae, Richard Monckton MilnesAt Philae, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyAboo Simbel, Charles Dent BellIpsamboul, Nicholas MichellAbu Simbel, John Bruce NortonTombs & MummiesSonnet XXXVI, Robert FergusonAt The Tomb of Thi, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyThe Egyptian Tomb, William Lisle BowlesThe Tombs of the Kings, Mathilde BlindIn a King’s Tomb, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyValley of the Kings, Nicholas MichellSecret of an Egyptian Tomb, F. Harald WilliamsThe Memphian Mummy, William Howe Cuyler HosmerAddress to a Mummy at Belzoni’s Exhibition, Horace SmithOpening The Mummy, Benjamin Penhallow ShillaberThe Daughter of Pharaoh, Charles Warren StoddardThe Mummy of Sesostris, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyEgypt & The Bible, & MysticismThe Plagues of Egypt, Jones VeryThe First-Born of Egypt, Robert BrowningOn A Great Deliverance, James SmethamThe Destruction of Pharaoh, John RuskinThe Flight into Egypt, Francis Sylvester MahoneyAncient Egypt, Gerald MasseyIn Egyptian Thebes, Evelyn DouglasEgyptian Theosophy, Mathilde BlindHermes Trismegistus, Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEgypt, Isaac WilliamsTourists, Humor, & Cats!Herodotus in Egypt, Andrew LangA Return to Egypt, Hardwicke Drummond RawnsleyAlong the Nile, Henry AbbeyWelcome to Egypt, Mathilde BlindEgypt, Isaac McLellanEgypt Unvisited, Alaric Alexander WattsThe Pyramids, Winthrop Mackworth PraedPelters of Pyramids, Richard Hengist HorneThe Secret of the Sphinx, Eugene FieldThe Sphinx, James Whitcomb RileyThe Naughty Little Egyptian, Mary Mapes DodgeTo My Cat, Rosamund Marriott WatsonThe PoetsBibliography

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