Collected Poems and Journals of Mary Tighe

by Mary Tighe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813123437
• ISBN13: 9780813123431
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"