Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive

Digital Prize Winner 2018

The Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive — ECPA — is a peer-reviewed, award-winning digital archive and research project devoted to the poetry of the long eighteenth century. ECPA builds on the electronic texts created by the Text Creation Partnership from Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).

Key features

browse authors by names, dates of birth, or gender;
browse works ( text versions) by titles, first lines, themes, or genres;
view high-quality digital facsimiles of select source editions of the texts used by ECPA;
use the built-in digital tools (reading, analysis, visualization, modelling) to augment the close reading process of individual poems;
contribute and share textual notes and glosses, readings and interpretations, observations and suggestions, via easy-to-use forms (just click on any line or word);
use the collaborative potential in the classroom to increase student engagement with the texts;
consult the resources (bibliography, chronology, gallery, etc.) for your further engagement with the field.

Recent additions

Mary Tighe (née Blachford)

(9 October 1772 - 24 March 1810)

Works in ECPA

Source editions

Psyche, With Other Poems. London: Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW, 1811. 314p.

Bibliography

ODNB 27443

Editions

Buchanan, Averill Joan, ed. Recontextualising Mary Tighe: Volume One "Recontextualising Mary Tighe", Volume Two "The Complete Shorter Poems of Mary Tighe", Volume Three "Appendices and Bibliography". Belfast: Queen's U of Belfast, 2005. Print. 3 volumes.
Feldman, Paula R. and Brian C. Cooney, eds. The collected poetry of Mary Tighe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2016. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer, ed. The collected poems and journals of Mary Tighe. Lexington: Kentucky UP, 2005. Print.

Reference works

Linkin, Harriet Kramer. Mary Tighe: A Portrait of the Artist for the Twenty-First Century. Wright, Julia M, ed. A Companion to Irish Literature, Volume One.. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 292-309. Print.
Radcliffe, David H., ed. Mary Tighe (1772-1810). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 11 Mar. 2015. http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=33343.

Criticism

Chakravarti, Debnita. The Female Epic and the Journey toward Self-Definition in Mary Tighe's Psyche. Schweizer, Bernard, ed. Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic, 1621-1982. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. 99-116. Print.
Kucich, Greg. Gender Crossings: Keats and Tighe. Keats-Shelley Journal: Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hunt, and Their Circles 44 (1995): 29-39. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer. Landon the Equivocal Canonizer: Constructing an Elegiac Chain of Women Poets in the Classroom. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 18(2) (May 2018): 235-245. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer. Mary Tighe's Psyche, William Hayley's Psyche, and George Romney's Cupid and Psyche. Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture and Criticism 24(1) (Apr 2018): 1-21. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer. Locating Irish Romanticism in Mary Tighe's Poetry and Prose. European Romantic Review 8(4) (Aug 2017): 431-445. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer. Mary Tighe, Psyche (1805) Haekel, Ralf, ed. Handbook of British Romanticism. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter, 2017. 409-424. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer. Reassessing Mary Tighe as a Lyrical and Political Poet: The Archival Discovery of Tighe's Verses Transcribed for H. T. (1805). Women's Writing 22(2) (May 2015): 189-208. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer. Mary Tighe and the Coterie of Women Poets in Psyche. Labbe, Jacqueline M., ed. The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 301-320. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer. Mary Tighe and literary history: the making of a critical reputation. Literature Compass 7(7) (2010): 564-576. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer. More Than Psyche: The Sonnets of Mary Tighe. European Romantic Review 13(4) (Dec 2002): 365-378. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer. Skirting around the Sex in Mary Tighe's Psyche. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 42(4) (Autumn 2002): 731-752. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer. Recuperating Romanticism in Mary Tighe's Psyche. Linkin, Harriet Kramer and Stephen C. Behrendt, eds. Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 1999. 144-162. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer. Teaching the Poetry of Mary Tighe: Psyche, Beauty, and the Romantic Object. Linkin, Harriet Kramer and Stephen C. Behrendt, eds. Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period. New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 106-109. Print.
Linkin, Harriet Kramer. Romanticism and Mary Tighe's Psyche: Peering at the Hem of Her Blue Stockings. Studies in Romanticism 35(1) (Spring 1996): 55-72. Print.
Saglia, Diego. Interior Luxury and Poetic Narratives of Identity: From Tighe and Hunt to Keats and Tennyson. Keats-Shelley Journal: Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hunt, and Their Circles 52 (2003): 130-165. Print.
Saglia, Diego. The dangers of over-refinement: the language of luxury in Romantic poetry by women, 1793-1811. Studies in Romanticism 38(4) (1999): 641-672. Print.