Felicia Hemans : selected poems, letters, reception materials / edited by Susan J. Wolfson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835.

Contributor:

Wolfson, Susan J., 1948-

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 2000

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835--Correspondence.

Hemans.

Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835--Criticism and interpretation.

Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835--Appreciation.

Poets, English--19th century--Correspondence.

Poets, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xl, 633 p. ) port. ;

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of the early nineteenth century. A best-selling poet in England and America, Felicia Hemans was regarded as leading female poet in her day, celebrated as the epitome of national "feminine" values. However, this same narrow perception of her work eventually relegated Hemans to an obscurity lightened occasionally by parody and a sentimental enthusiasm for poems such as "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" and "Casabianca." Only now is Hemans's work being rediscovered and reconsidered--for the complexity of its social and political vision, but also for its sounding of dissonances in nineteenth-century cultural ideals, and for its recasting of the traditional canon of male "Romantics."Offering readers a firsthand acquaintance with the remarkable range of Hemans's writing, this volume includes five major works in their entirety, along with a much-admired aggregate, Records of Woman. Hemans's letters, many published here for the first time, reflect her views of her contemporaries, her work, her negotiations with publishers, and her emerging celebrity, while reviews and letters from others--including Lord Byron, Walter Scott, and the Wordsworths--tell the story of Hemans's reception in her time. An introduction by editor Susan Wolfson puts these writings, as well as Hemans's life and work, into much-needed perspective for the contemporary reader.

Contents:

Introduction: Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, 1793-1835

Works

The Statue of the Dying Gladiator

The Domestic Affections

Epitaph on Mr. W

, a Celebrated Mineralogist (ca. 1814-16)

The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy: A Poem (1816)

Modern Greece, A Poem (1817)

The Widow of Crescentius

The Abencerrage

The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra

Alaric in Italy

The Wife of Asdrubal

Heliodorus in the Temple

Night-Scene in Genoa

The Troubadour, and Richard Coeur de Lion

The Death of Conradin

Patriotic Effusions of the Italian Poets (1821)

Elysium

The Siege of Valencia: A Dramatic Poem

Songs of the Cid

England's Dead

The Suliote Mother

The Treasures of the Deep

Bring Flowers

The Sound of the Sea

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

The Homes of England

The Sicilian Captive

The Lady of the Castle

Tasso and his Sister

To Wordsworth

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England

The Palm-Tree

The Illuminated City

The Spells of Home

The Graves of a Household

The Image in Lava

A Parting Song

The Traveller at the Source of the Nile

Casabianca

Our Daily Paths

The Lost Pleiad

The Dying Improvisatore

Evening Prayer at a Girls' School

The Cliffs of Dover

Night-Blowing Flowers

The Broken Chain

Woman and Fame

The Mirror in the Deserted hall

A Spirit's Return

The Two Homes

The Land of Dreams

Woman on the Field of Battle

Supplement: To the Memory of Lord Charles Murray

The Deserted House

Corinne at the Capitol

The Diver

The Last Song of Sappho

To My Own Portrait

The Lyre and Flower

Design and Performance

Sabbath Sonnet

Letters

To her aunt, 19 December 1808

To Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811

Felicity Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 7 February 1812

To Matthew Nicholson, 12 March 1812

To William Stanley Roscoe, 22 October 1813

To John Murray, 26 February 1817

To John Murray, November 1817

To James Simpson, 22 October 1819

To B.P. Wagner, November 1819

To Harriett Browne, October 1820

To William Jerdan, 11 June 1821

To?, 1822

To Fanny Luxmoore, mid-July 1822

To William Jacob, 1 May 1823

To William Jerdan, 8 May 1823

To Miss?, 15 May 1823

To William Jerdan, 19 May 1823

To Maria Jane Jewsbury, mid-1826

To an old friend, January 1827

To William Blackwood, 13 June 1827

To William Blackwood, 3 November 1827

To William Blackwood, 14 February 1828

To Rev. Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828

To William Blackwood, 1 March 1828

To Mary Russell Mitford, 23 March 1828

To William Henry Atherton, 9 May 1828

To William Blackwood, 29 July 1828

To Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828

To a friend, early 1829

To William Blackwood, ca. January 1830

To?, 22 June 1830

To John Lodge, 24 June 1830

To Rose Lawrence, ca. 24 June 1830

To?H. F. Chorley, 24 June 1830

To a male friend from Coniston, 25 June 1830

To "Mr.

," 2 July 1830

To Thomas Cadell, 5 July?1830

To?Harriett Hughes, early July 1830

To?H. F. Chorley's sister, mid-July 1830

To John Lodge, 20 July 1830

To Rose Lawrence, late July 1830

To a new friend in Dublin, Fall 1830

To a new friend in Dublin, early 1831

To?, after 12 February 1831

To John Lodge, July 1831

To Clara Graves, July 1831

To William Blackwood, 18 September 1831

William Blackwood to FH, 26 September 1831

To?Harriett Hughes, May 1832

To?H. F. Chorley, August 1832

To Rev. Samuel Butler, 7 November 1833

To Wordsworth, before April 1834

To?, 28 June 1834

To a friend,?28 June 1834

To a friend, early July 1834

To Archdeacon Samuel Butler, 26 July 1834

To Robert Peel, 10 February 1835

To Rose Lawrence, 13 February 1835

Reception

Lifetime

Death

Nineteenth-Century Retrospects.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-620) and index.

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ISBN:

9780691146652

0691146659

9781400818723

1400818729

9781400814848

1400814847

OCLC:

1245664298