The collected poems and journals of Mary Tighe

About this book

Mary Blachford Tighe was born in Dublin in 1722 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. Harriet Kramer Linkin, professor of English at New Mexico State University, is the coeditor of Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception.