Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials

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Princeton University Press, 2000 - 633 頁

The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of the early nineteenth century. A 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. However, this same narrow perception of her work eventually relegated Hemans to an obscurity lightened occasionally by parody and a sentimental enthusiasm for poems such as "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" and "Casabianca." Only now is Hemans's work being rediscovered and reconsidered--for the complexity of its social and political vision, but also for its sounding of dissonances in nineteenth-century cultural ideals, and for its recasting of the traditional canon of male "Romantics."

Offering readers a firsthand acquaintance with the remarkable range of Hemans's writing, this volume includes five major works in their entirety, along with a much-admired aggregate, Records of Woman. Hemans's letters, many published here for the first time, reflect her views of her contemporaries, her work, her negotiations with publishers, and her emerging celebrity, while reviews and letters from others--including Lord Byron, Walter Scott, and the Wordsworths--tell the story of Hemans's reception in her time. An introduction by editor Susan Wolfson puts these writings, as well as Hemans's life and work, into much-needed perspective for the contemporary reader.

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CONTENTS
2
GENERAL INDEX
2
TEXTS FORMATS EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES ABBREVIATIONS
2
Sabbath Sonnet
2
From The Domestic Affections and Other Poems 1812
2
a Celebrated Mineralogist ca 181416
16
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine 1835
34
16
41
With Other Poems 1828
329
With Other Poems 1829
426
From the Annuals 182630
435
The Diver
460
William Wordsworth Extempore Effusion
576
268
621
529
624
Grants to Hemans 1835
627

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Susan Wolfson is Professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of several critical volumes on poetry of the British Romantic era and the editor of critical editions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and editions of Byron, Hood, Praed, Beddoes, as well as the "Romantics" unit of the Longman Anthology of British Literature.

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