The collected poems and journals of Mary Tighe / edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tighe, Mary, 1772-1810.

Contributor:

Linkin, Harriet Kramer, 1956- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, Irish--18th century--Diaries.

Poets, Irish.

Poets, Irish--19th century--Diaries.

Tighe, Mary, 1772-1810--Diaries.

Tighe, Mary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mary Blachford Tighe was born in Dublin in 1772 and became a poet by the age of seventeen. Her enormously popular 1805 epic poem ""Psyche; or, The Legend of Love"" made her a fixture of English literary history for much of the nineteenth century. For much of the twentieth century, however, Tighe was better known for her influence on Keats's poetry than the considerable merits of her own work. The Collected Poems and Journals of Mary Tighe restores Tighe to the general canon of English literature of the period. With over eighty-five poems, including the complete Psyche, and extracts from sever

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Editorial Note on the Text; Introduction; A Brief Chronology; POETRY; Poems, 1789-1801; August 1789; Good Friday, 1790; To Her Mother. Rossana, 1791; From Metastasio, 1791; Sonnet, March 1791 (""As the frail bark, long tossed by stormy winds""); Verses Written in Solitude, April 1792; March 1793; Sonnet (""As one who late hath lost a friend adored""); To Death; Written at Scarborough; Sonnet (""When glowing Phoebus quits the weeping earth""); Written in Autumn; The Vartree

Sonnet (""Poor, fond deluded heart! wilt thou again"")Written in the Church-yard at Malvern; Verses Written at the Devils Bridge, Cardigansh; When the Bitter Source of Sorrow; Bryan Byrne, of Glenmalure; Avails it Ought to Number O'er; Time Fades the Lustre of the Moon; To the Moon; Sympathy; Calm Delight; Song (""See my love, yon angry deep""); To -c- e (""The youth of broken fortunes sent to roam""); The Hours of Peace; La Cittadina: On Leaving Rossana 1798; A Letter from Mrs. Acton to Her Nephew Mr. Evans; Acrostics; There Was a Young Lordling Whose Wits Were All Toss'd Up

Sonnet (""For me would Fancy now her chaplet twine"")To Time; Written at Rossana (""Dear chestnut bower, I hail thy secret shade""); Written at Rossana. November 18,1799; Written at the Eagle's Nest, Killarney. July 26, 1800; Written at Killarney. July 29,1800; On Leaving Killarney. August 5, 1800; Sonnet (""Ye dear associates of my gayer hours""); A Faithful Friend Is the Medicine of Life; The Kiss.-Imitated from Voiture; Sonnet (""As nearer I approach that fatal day""); Psyche, 1801-1802; Psyche; or, the Legend of Love; Preface; Sonnet Addressed to My Mother; Canto I; Canto II; Canto III

Canto IV Canto V; Canto VI; Poems, 1802-1809; Lord of Hearts Benignly Callous; 'Tis Thy Command, and Edwin Shall Obey; The Picture. Written for Angela; Fled Are the Summer Hours of Joy and love; Sonnet ('""Tis past the cruel anguish of suspense"); Oh Seal My Sad and Weary Eyes; Peace, Peace, Nor Utter What I Must Not Hear; But to Have Hung Enamored on Those Lips; Pleasure; Sonnet (""Can I look back, and view with tranquil eye""); 1802 (""Thy Summer's day was long, but coulds't thou think""); Tranquility, 1802; To - (""How hard, with anguish unrevealed"")

Verses Written at the Commencement of Spring Pleasure, 1803; The World, 1803; Tho Genius and Fancy Hereafter May Trace; The Old Maid's Prayer to Diana; On a Night-blowing Cereus; To Cowper & His Mary; The Eclipse. Jan. 24,1804; Written for Her Niece S.K.; To Fortune. From Metastasio; To the Memory of Margaret Tighe; Verses Addressed to Henry Vaughan; Verses Written in Sickness. December, 1804; Psalm CXXX. Imitated, Jan. 1805; Addressed to My Brother. 1805; Address to the West Wind, Written at Pargate, 1805; Imitation from Boïeldieu; Address to My Harp; Morning

To W. Hayley, Esq. in Return for a Copy of Cowper's Life, with a Sonnet-1806

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813159027

0813159024

9780813172026

0813172020

OCLC:

67554088