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Foster gives us the first comprehensive anthology in English of ancient Egyptian lyric poetry. Translated from the original Egyptian, the collection emphasizes the value of the ancient poems as literature. The translations retain an accurate sense of the original language, and the poems are set in the proper, “thought couplet” style characteristic of Egyptian verse. Hymns, prayers, and songs...

of the grasping and fraudulent, for aid with studies, with advancement in a profession, or for purity of heart and power to serve the god well. In other words, the entire gamut of religious emotions and attitudes seen in the hymns and prayers of later religions—classical or Judeo-Christian—is there in the Egyptian poems. What was the Egyptian hope? The answer to this question sets that civilization apart from all the others of its time; for the Egyptian looked forward to a happy afterlife in the
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