Records of woman, with other poems / Felicia Hemans ; edited by Paula R. Feldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835, author.

Contributor:

Feldman, Paula R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Poetry.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

Summary:

Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), one of the most influential and widely-read poets of the nineteenth century, wrote Records of Woman in 1828 at the height of her long career. In the series, which includes nineteen poems about exemplary lives, Hemans explores what it means to be a woman, challenging traditional beliefs while at the same time reinforcing persistent stereotypes. Her work celebrates the lives, events, and imagined thoughts of unremembered women from different cultures and time periods whose deeds show nobility of spirit and inner strength. In her introduction, Paula Feldman examines h

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Further Reading; Note on the Text; Records of Woman; Arabella Stuart; The Bride of the Greek Isle; The Switzer's Wife; Properzia Rossi; Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death; Imelda; Edith, a Tale of the Woods; The Indian City; The Peasant Girl of the Rhone; Indian Woman's Death Song; Joan of Arc, in Rheims; Pauline; Juana; The American Forest Girl; Costanza; Madeline, a Domestic Tale; The Queen of Prussia's Tomb; The Memorial Pillar; The Grave of a Poetess; Miscellaneous Pieces; The Homes of England

The Sicilian CaptiveIvan the Czar; Carolan's Prophecy; The Lady of the Castle; The Mourner for the Barmecides; The Spanish Chapel; The Captive Knight; The Kaiser's Feast; Tasso and his Sister; Ulla, or the Adjuration; To Wordsworth; A Monarch's Death-Bed; To the Memory of Heber; The Adopted Child; Invocation; Körner and his Sister; An Hour of Romance; A Voyager's Dream of Land; The Effigies; The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England; The Spirit's Mysteries; The Departed; The Palm-Tree; The Child's Last Sleep; The Sunbeam; Breathings of Spring; The Illuminated City; The Spells of Home

Roman Girl's SongThe Distant Ship; The Birds of Passage; The Graves of a Household; Mozart's Requiem; The Image in Lava; The Last Wish; Fairy Favours; A Parting Song; Notes to the Poems; Index of First Lines; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; O; R; S; T; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-2836-6

0-8131-4906-1

OCLC:

900344381