* The enthusiasm for hieroglyphics persisted. Pound started incorporating Egyptian writing in The Cantos after his daughter married an Egyptologist; Vachel Lindsay was obsessed with Egyptology, offering a “Primer Lesson on Hieroglyphics” in his 1926 poetry collection Going-to-the-Stars. Also found there is a paean, “Celestial Flowers of Glacier Park,” profusely illustrated with fanciful hieroglyphs like “The Mountain Carpet”:

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