Mrs. Hemans

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans

The Poetical Works of Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Poems

With Other Religious Poems

Scenes and Hymns of Life,

With a Memoir of Her Life

The Works of Mrs. Hemans

Reprinted Entire from the Last English Edition

The Complete Works of Mrs. Hemans

With a Memoir of Her Life, by Her Sister : in Seven Volumes. Songs & lyrics ¬[u.a.]

The Works

With a Memoir of Her Life, by Her Sister : in Seven Volumes. ¬The vespers of Palermo ¬[u.a.]

The Poetical Works of Felicia Hemans ...

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.

Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials

Felicia Hemans

The Poetical Works of Mrs. Hemans

A Tragedy in Five Acts

The Vespers of Palermo

Complete in One Volume

The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans

The Poetical Works of Felicia Hemans

The Seige of Valencia, The Vespers of Palermo, and Other Poems

The League of the Alps

The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok

The select poetical works of Felicia Hemans

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans

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