Collected Poems and Journals of Mary Tighe - Hardcover

by Mary Tighe (Author), Harriet Kramer Linkin (Editor)

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 Biography

Harriet Kramer Linkin, professor of English at New Mexico State University, is the coeditor of The Collected Poems and Journals of Mary Tighe.