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Ancient Egypt in Poetry: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Verse KingTut rewarding them with gold medalsDonald P. Ryan Egypt's ancient pyramids, temples, and tombs along the Nile, which have inspired artists and writers for centuries, have also inspired poetsand 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