Collected Poems and Journals of Mary Tighe

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

Author: Mary Tighe
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 01/14/2005
Pages: 345
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.28w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9780813123431

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2005 pg. 1824

About the Author

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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