| Edition |
lst edition. |
| Description |
xxiii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272). |
| Contents |
Poems: Akhenaten's hymn to the sun -- Tale of the shipwrecked sailor -- "Why, just now, must you question your heart" -- "I love you through the daytimes" -- "My love is one and only" -- "Love, how I'd love to slip down to the pond" -- "Love of you is mixed deep in my vitals" -- "I think I'll go home and lie very still" -- Songs of the birdcatcher's daughter -- Instruction for little Pepi on his way to school -- Longing for Memphis -- "Oh, I'm bound downstream on the Memphis ferry" -- Rebuke addressed to a dissipated scribe -- Menna's lament -- Debate between a man tired of life and his soul -- Resurrection of King Unis -- Prayer to the King to rise up -- Hymn to the King as a primordial God -- Hymn to the King as a flash of lightning -- Hymn to the King as a star fading in the dawn -- Prophecy of Neferty -- Testament of Amenemhat -- Two spells -- Spell for causing the beloved to follow after -- Power from the four winds of heaven -- Greatness of the King -- Prayer of King Ramesses II -- For a portrait of the Queen -- Hymn to Osiris -- Hymn to the Nile -- Hymn to the rising sun -- In praise of Amun -- Lament to Amun -- Tale of Sinuhe -- From the Leiden hymns -- Prayers of Pahery -- From the tomb of King Intef -- Harper's song for Inherkhawy -- From the eloquent peasant -- Peasant's eighth complaint -- From the maxims of Ptahhotep -- Instruction for Merikare -- Wisdom of Amenemopet -- Immortality of writers. |
| Subject |
Egyptian literature -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Foster, John L. (John Lawrence), 1930-2011
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| Added Title |
Egyptian literature |
| ISBN |
0292725264 cloth alkaline paper |
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0292725272 paperback alkaline paper |
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