{"product_id":"felicia-hemans-selected-poems-letters-reception-materials-9780691146652","title":"Felicia Hemans  Selected Poems Letters Reception","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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. This title features a collection of her writings. It includes her letters, which reflect her views of her contemporaries, her work, her negotiations with publishers, and her celebrity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This excellent documentary edition should serve to revive interest in one of the most popular literary figures of the early 19th century.\"--Virginia Quarterly Review \"It is one of the great triumphs of Susan Wolfson's fine new edition that she enables us to see so clearly and with such an unencumbered view the work of one of the greatest of British Romantic poets. This edition sets--and then meets--high standards for textual editing, for circumspect biography, and for intellectual aesthetic, and cultural sensitivity.\"--Stephen Behrendt, Criticism \"This latest offering from Susan Wolfson will undoubtedly become a common reference-point and focus for further consideration of Hemans.\"--Myra Cottingham, Modern Language Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS  INTRODUCTION: Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, 1793-1835 xiii  TEXTS, FORMATS, EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES, ABBREVIATIONS xxxi  CHRONOLOGY xxxiii  WORKS 1  From The Domestic Affections and Other Poems (1812) 3  The Statue of the Dying Gladiator 3  The Domestic Affections 4  Epitaph on Mr. W---, a Celebrated Mineralogist (ca. 1814-16) 16  The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy: A Poem (1816) 18  Modern Greece, A Poem (1817) 34  Tales, and Historic Scenes, in Verse (1819) 70  The Widow of Crescentius 70  The Abencerrage 90  The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra 135  Alaric in Italy 139  The Wife of Asdrubal 145  Heliodorus in the Temple 148  Night-Scene in Genoa 151  The Troubadour, and Richard Coeur de Lion 157  The Death of Conradin 163  Patriotic Effusions of the Italian Poets (1821) 171  From The Siege of Valencia; A Dramatic Poem ... With Other Poems (1823) 173  Elysium 173  The Siege of Valencia: A Dramatic Poem 176  Appendix 1: MS Songs 254  Appendix 2: MS, Scene 6 255  Songs of the Cid 256  England's Dead 265  From The Forest Sanctuary; anal Other Poems (1825) 268  The Forest Sanctuary 268  Lays of Many Lands 322  The Suliote Mother 322  Miscellaneous Pieces 324  The Treasures of the Deep 324  Bring Flowers 326  From New Monthly Magazine, 1826 327  The Sound of the Sea 327  From Records of Woman: With Other Poems (1828) 329  Records of Woman 330  Arabella Stuart 331  The Bride of the Greek Isle 340 The Switzer's Wife 347 Properzia Rossi 351  Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death 356 Imelda 358 Edith, a Tale of the Woods 362  The Indian City 368  The Peasant Girl of the Rhone 374 Indian Woman's Death-Song 377  Joan of Arc, in Rheims 380  Pauline 383  Juana 387  The American Forest-Girl 389  Costanza 391  Madeline, a Domestic Tale 395  The Queen of Prussia's Tomb 398  The Memorial Pillar 401  The Grave of a Poetess 403  Miscellaneous Pieces 405  The Homes of England 405  The Sicilian Captive 407  The Lady of the Castle 410  Tasso and his Sister 412  To Wordsworth 415  The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England 416  The Palm-Tree 418  The Illuminated City 419  The Spells of Home 421  The Graves of a Household 422  The Image in Lava 423  A Parting Song 425  From The Forest Sanctuary: With Other Poem; (1829) 426  Miscellaneous Pieces 426  The Traveller at the Source of the Nile 426  Casabianca 428  Our Daily Paths 430  The Lost Pleiad 432  The Dying Improvisatore 433  From the Annuals (1826-30) 435  Forget Me Not 436  Evening Prayer at a Girls' School 436  The Cliffs of Dover 438  Night-Blowing Flowers 439  The Keepsake 440  The Broken Chain 440  The Amulet 441  Woman and Fame 441  The Literary Souvenir 443  The Mirror in the Deserted Hall 443  From Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems, (1830) 444  Songs 444  A Spirit's Return 444  The Two Homes 452  The Land of Dreams 453  Woman on the Field of Battle 455  Supplement: To the Memory of Lord Charles Murray 457  The Deserted House 458  Miscellaneous Poems 460  Corinne at the Capitol 460  The Diver 462  Late Poems (1831-34) 46,5  The Last Song of Sappho 465  To My Own Portrait 467  The Lyre and Flower 469  From Records of the Autumn of 1834 470  Design and Performance 470  From Blackwood's Edinburgb Magazine 1835 471  Sabbath Sonnet 471  LETTERS 473  To her aunt, 19 December 1808 475  To Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811 476  Felicity Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 7 February 1812 477  To Matthew Nicholson, 12 March 1812 479  To William Stanley Roscoe, 22 October 1813 479  To John Murray, 26 February 1817 480  To John Murray, November 1817 481  To James Simpson, 22 October 1819 482  To B. P Wagner, November 1819 484  To Harriett Browne, October 1820 484  To William Jerdan, 11 June 1821 485  To ?, 1822 486  To Fanny Luxmoore, mid-July 1822 487  To William Jacob, 1 May 1823 488  To William Jerdan, 8 May 1823 489  To Miss?, 15 May 1823 490  To William Jerdan, 19 May 1823 491  To Maria Jane Jewsbury, mid-1826 491  To an old friend, January 1827 493  To William Blackwood, 13 June 1827 494  To William Blackwood, 3 November 1827 495  To William Blackwood, 14 February 1828 495  To Rev. Samuel Butler, 19 February 1828 496  To William Blackwood, 1 March 1828 497  To Mary Russell Mitford, 23 March 1828 498  To William Henry Atherton, 9 May 1828 499  To William Blackwood, 29 July 1828 500  To Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828 501  To a friend, early 1829 502  To William Blackwood, ca. January 1830 502  To ?, 22 June 1830 503  To John Lodge, 24 June 1830 504  To Rose Lawrence, ca. 24 June 1830 505  To ?H. F Chorley, 24 June 1830 505  To a male friend from Coniston, 25 June 1830 506  TO \"Mr.----,\" 2 July 1830 507  To Thomas Cadell, 5 July ? 1830 508  To ?Harriett Hughes, early July 1830 508  To ?H. F Chorley's sister, mid July 1830 509  TO John Lodge, 20 July 1830 510  To Rose Lawrence, late July 1830 511  To a new friend in Dublin, Fall 1830 511  To a new friend in Dublin, early 1831 512  To ?, after 12 February 1831 513  To John Lodge, July 1831 513  To Clara Graves, July 1831 514  To William Blackwood, 18 September 1831 515  William Blackwood to FH, 26 September 1831 515  To ?Harriett Hughes, May 1832 516  To ?H. F Chorley, August 1832 516  To Rev. Samuel Butler, 7 November 1833 517  To Wordsworth, before April 1834 517  To?, 28 June 1834 518  To a friend, ?28 June 1834 518  To a friend, early July 1834 519  To Archdeacon Samuel Butler, 26 July 1834 519  To Robert Peel, 10 February 1835 520  To Rose Lawrence, 13 February 1835 521  RECEPTION 523  Lifetime 525  Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1808-11 526  British Critic, 1816 529  Monthly Review, 1819 529  Edinburgh Monthly Review, 1820 530  British Review, 1820 532  Hannah More, 1820 532  Quarterly Review, 1820 533  Byron to John Murray, 1816-20 535  British Critic, 1823 537  British Review, 1823 540  Monthly Review, 1823 541  Joanna Baillie, 1824-27 542  Walter Scott, 1823-29 545  William Blackwood to Hemans, 1828-30 546  Noctes Ambrosianae, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1828 548  Francis Jeffrey, Edinburgh Review, 1829 549  The Wordsworths, 1830-37 556  Maria Jane Jewsbury, The Three Histories, 1830 560  \"Felicia Hemans,\" Atbenaum, 1831 562  Andrews Norton to Hemans, 26 June 1831 569  Grants to Hemans, 1835 569  Death 571  L.E.L., Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans 571  Elizabeth Barrett, StanzasAddressed tO Miss Landon 574  Joanna Baillie to Andrews Norton 576  William Wordsworth, Extempore Effusion 576  Nineteenth-Century Retrospects 580  L.E.L., \"On the Character of Mrs. Hemans's Writings,\" New Monthly, 1835 580  Felicia Hemans, 1838 582  Henry F Chorley, \"Personal Recollections,\" Athenrum, 1835 584  Memorials of Mrs. Hemans, 1836 586  Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1842 590  George Gilfillan, \"Mrs. Hemans,\" Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 1847 591  Jane Williams, The Literary Women of England, 1861 599  William Michael Rossetti, \"Prefatory Notice,\" 1878 603  BIBLIOGRAPHY 611  INDEX OF TITLES 621  GENERAL INDEX 623","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359109775703,"sku":"9780691146652","price":55.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691146652.jpg?v=1754123624","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/felicia-hemans-selected-poems-letters-reception-materials-9780691146652","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}