Amelia Opie (née Alderson)

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• BALLAD, FOUNDED ON FACT. ()
• JULIA, OR THE CONVENT OF ST. CLAIRE. ()
• LINES ON HEARING, THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO, THAT CONSTANTINOPLE WAS SWALLOWED UP BY AN EARTHQUAKE; ()
• LINES ON THE OPENING OF A SPRING CAMPAIGN. ()
• LINES ON THE PLACE DE LA CONCORDE AT PARIS, ()
• LINES WRITTEN IN 1799. ()
• LOVE ELEGY, TO HENRY. ()
• LOVE ELEGY, TO LAURA. ()
• THE LUCAYAN'S SONG. ()
• THE MAD WANDERER, A BALLAD. ()
• THE MOON AND THE COMET; A FABLE. ()
• ODE TO BORROWDALE IN CUMBERLAND. ()
• THE ORIGIN OF THE SAIL. ()
• REMEMBRANCE. ()
• SECRET LOVE. ()
• SONG ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• [SONG.] ()
• [SONG.] ()
• [SONG.] ()
• [SONG.] ()
• SONNET ON THE APPROACH OF AUTUMN. ()
• STANZAS TO CYNTHIO. ()
• TO A MANIAC. ()
• TO ANNA. ()
• TO HENRY. ()
• TO HENRY. ()
• TO HENRY. ()
• TO HENRY. ()
• TO LAURA. ()
• TO LORENZO. ()
• TO LOTHARIO. ()
• THE WARRIOR'S RETURN. ()

• Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853. The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems. By Mrs. Opie. 2d. ed. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-row, 1808.
  • THE WARRIOR'S RETURN.
  • JULIA, OR THE CONVENT OF ST. CLAIRE.
  • THE MAD WANDERER, A BALLAD.
  • LINES WRITTEN IN 1799.
  • SONG.
  • TO LORENZO.
  • ODE TO BORROWDALE IN CUMBERLAND.
  • THE LUCAYAN'S SONG.
  • SONG.
  • BALLAD, FOUNDED ON FACT.
  • SONG
  • STANZAS TO CYNTHIO.
  • THE ORIGIN OF THE SAIL.
  • SONNET ON THE APPROACH OF AUTUMN.
  • TO LAURA.
  • LOVE ELEGY, TO LAURA.
  • LOVE ELEGY, TO HENRY.
  • TO HENRY.
  • TO HENRY.
  • LINES ON THE OPENING OF A SPRING CAMPAIGN.
  • LINES ON THE PLACE DE LA CONCORDE AT PARIS,
  • THE MOON AND THE COMET; A FABLE.
  • TO LOTHARIO.
  • TO HENRY.
  • TO ANNA.
  • REMEMBRANCE.
  • SECRET LOVE.
  • TO A MANIAC.
  • LINES ON HEARING, THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO, THAT CONSTANTINOPLE WAS SWALLOWED UP BY AN EARTHQUAKE;
  • SONG.
  • TO HENRY.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • [SONG.]
  • [SONG.]
  • [SONG.]
  • [SONG.]

Source editions

• Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853. The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems. By Mrs. Opie. 2d. ed. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-row, 1808.

Bibliography

ODNB 20799; DMI 1986

Editions

• King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, eds. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Oxford; New York: OUP, 2009. Print.
• Reiman, Donald H., ed. "The Warrior's Return" and Other Poems. Romantic Context 93. New York: Garland, 1978. Print. (Rpt. of 1808 ed.; bound with "Black Man's Lament" [1826].)

Reference works

• Radcliffe, David H., ed. Amelia Opie (1769-1853). Spenser and the Tradition: ENGLISH POETRY 1579-1830. Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech, 2006. Web. 14 Oct. 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?recordid=33616.
• Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 236-237. Print.

Criticism

• Bradley, Andrea. Correcting Mrs Opie's powers: the Edinburgh review of Amelia Opie's Poems (1802). Prose Studies 25(1) (2002): 41-61. Print.
• Eberle, Roxanne. Amelia and John Opie: conjugal sociability and Romanticism's professional arts. Studies in Romanticism 53(3) (2014): 319-41. Print.
• Eberle, Roxanne. 'Tales of Truth?': Amelia Opie's Antislavery Poetics. Linkin, Harriet Kramer, and Stephen C. Behrendt, eds. Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 1999. 71-98. Print.
• King, Shelley. 'To delineate the human mind in its endless varieties': integral lyric and characterization in the tales of Amelia Opie. Parker, Kate and Courtney Weiss Smith, eds. Eighteenth-century poetry and the rise of the novel reconsidered. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP; Lanham, MD; Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 65-83. Print.
• King, Shelley. Portrait of a marriage: John and Amelia Opie and the sister arts. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 40 (2011): 27-62. Print.
• King, Shelley. Politics, poetics and propriety: reviewing Amelia Opie. Romanticism on the Net 29/30 (2003). Web. 10 Oct. 2016. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ron/2003-n29-30-ron695/007720ar/
• Pierce, John B. The suspension of sensibility in Amelia Opie's early poetry. Romanticism 21(3) (2015): 228-37. Print.
• Wake, Ann Frank. Indirect Dissent: 'Landscaping' Female Agency in Amelia Alderson Opie's Poems of the 1790s. Craciun, Adriana and Kari E. Lokke, eds. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution. SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory. Albany, NY: State U of New York P, 2001. 261-89. Print.