Description: The Works of Mrs Hemans; With a memoir of her life, By her sister. Complete in seven volumes. Felicia Hemans, 1793 1835, was an English poet. Her first poems were published in 1808, when she was only fourteen, arousing the interest of no less a person than Percy Bysshe Shelley, who briefly corresponded with her. Marriage was no hindrance to her literary career, however she later separated from her husband. From 1831 onwards, she lived in Dublin near her younger brother, and her poetic output continued. Her major collections were immensely popular, especially with female readers. By her death, Hemans was a well-known literary figure, highly regarded by contemporaries such as Wordsworth, and with a popular following in the United States and the United Kingdom. "With twenty volumes and nearly four hundred poems published in magazines and annuals during her lifetime, Felicia Hemans was the most considerable woman poet of the Romantic period…. Some readers find her floral and topographical language and frequent allusions to history and literature purely decorative, while others propose that these elements reflect a systematic and critical study of politics and gender. Hemans's characteristically insistent rhythm and insinuating tone appear to support the latter argument, as do her pointed revisions of sources such as the work of Gibbon or Byron.
Price: 250 GBP
Location: Maidenhead
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Binding: Fine Binding
Language: English
Author: Felicia Hemans
Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons
Weight: 2.5 kg
Year Printed: 1844
