The Collected Poems and Journals of Mary Tighe

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University Press of Kentucky, 2021 M12 14 - 384 pages

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 several journals, both by and about Tighe, Harriet Kramer Linkin's annotated edition is the most complete collection of Mary Tighe's work to be published in one volume.

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Acknowledgments
A Brief Chronology
To Her Mother Rossana 1791
Sonnet When glowing Phoebus quits the weeping earth
Canto II
Lord of Hearts Benignly Callous
The Eclipse Jan 24 1804
Verses Addressed to Henry Vaughan
Observations on the Foregoing Journal by Her Mother
Mary Tighe
Tributes to Mary Tighe
Notes
Sonnet Poor fond deluded heart wilt thou again
Written at Rossana Dear chestnut bower I hail thy secret
The Picture Written for Angela
Sonnet Written at Woodstock in the County of Kilkenny

Address to My Harp
The Shawls Petition to Lady Asgill
Written at WestAston June 1808
Extracts from a Journal of M B Born 1772
Bibliography
Index of Titles and First Lines
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Harriet Kramer Linkin, professor of English at New Mexico State University, is the coeditor of The Collected Poems and Journals of Mary Tighe.

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