The Collected Poems and Journals of Mary TigheUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2005 M01 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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... fears their utmost proof . " So had these eyes been spared a sight That wrings my soul with anguish still , Nor known how much of life , ere night , The blood - hounds of revenge could spill . " Sinking at once with fear and age , Her ...
... fear , he saw Pale terror yielding to the rosy grace , The pure congealed blood begin to thaw , And flowing through her crystal veins apace Suffuse with mantling blush her mild celestial face . Gently approaching then with fairest ...
... fear , Swifter than thought his flaming sword he drew , And from his hand the doubtful javelin threw Lest erring it might wound the trembling fair : Eager the cruel monster to subdue He scorned to use his shield's protecting care , And ...
Contents
August 1789 | 5 |
Sympathy | 28 |
A Letter from Mrs Acton to Her Nephew Mr Evans | 37 |
Copyright | |
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