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Mary Tighe was born on the 9th of October 1772 in Dublin to Theodosia Tighe, a Methodist leader, and William Blachford, a Church of Ireland clergyman and librarian. She had a strict religious upbringing.
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The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe
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Mary Blachford Tighe (17721810) was a crucial force in shaping British Romanticism. Her influential six-canto epic, Psyche, or the Legend of Love (1805), along with her shorter poems, engaged the central issues of the period, often in advance of writers now considered canonical. With remarkable vitality and virtuosity, Tighe wrote about the tensions between love and loss, duty and desire, the spiritual and the sensuous, nation and family, and the Irish and the British, all while struggling with the debilitating illness that eventually claimed her life. This scholarly edition collects for the first time dozens of recently discovered poems, accompanied by Tighes own illustrations, and identifies eight false attributions. A historical and biographical introduction from editors Paula R. Feldman and Brian C. Cooney discusses Tighes work within a larger social and political context, placing renewed emphasis on the conflicts she experienced as a Methodist with Anglo-Irish roots. Editorial annotations shed new light on Tighes life, revealing for the first time, for example, that her songs were performed during her lifetime on the Dublin stage. Meticulously edited, this volume builds on recent pioneering scholarship to restore and burnish Tighes reputation as a major Romantic-era poet.
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The publication of Psyche in 1795 established her reputation as a poet. This work has been characterized as "pure, polished, sublime — the outpouring of a trammelled soul yearning to be freed from its uncongenial surroundings. " In a contemporary portrait "she is depicted with rich flowing, dark-brown hair, a few tendrils of which stray upon her smooth, intellectual forehead. The eyes are of a deep blue, large and pellucid; the lower part of the face is exquisitely formed, .. the general expression of the countenance is sweet, innocent, and lofty, but tinged with a look of inexpressible sadness. " She was attacked with consumption, and, after wandering in search of health for some years, died at the residence of her brother-in-law, in County Wicklow, 24th March 1810, aged 37.
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The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe
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In 1793 she contracted what proved to be an unhappy marriage with her cousin, Henry Tighe of Woodstock.
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Anglican