Susanna Blamire

by Giacomo Cambruzzi, c. 1778

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• 'TWAS WHEN THE SUN SLID DOWN YON HILL. ()
• ADDRESS TO HEALTH. — 1784. ()
• ADDRESS TO MISS J. GALE ON HER MARRIAGE WITH THE REV. F. GRAHAM, RECTOR OF ARTHURET. ()
• THE ADIEU AND RECALL TO LOVE. ()
• AE NIGHT IN DARK DECEMBER. ()
• AGAIN MAUN ABSENCE CHILL MY SOUL. ()
• THE AULD CARLE WAD TAK ME FAIN. ()
• AULD ROBIN FORBES. ()
• BARLEY BROTH. ()
• BEHOLD, MY AMANDA. ()
• THE BOWER OF ELEGANCE. ADDRESSED TO A VERY ACCOMPLISHED WOMAN. ()
• BRIDE-CAKE. ()
• A CALL TO HOPE. 22D MAY, 1792. ()
• A CAUTION TO MISS B. ()
• THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS. ()
• COME, MORTALS, ENLIVEN THE HOUR. ()
• THE CUMBERLAND SCOLD. ()
• A CURE FOR LOVE. ()
• DEAR NANCY. ()
• THE DESCENT OF PITY. 20TH NOVEMBER, 1781. ()
• EDWIN AND ALICIA. A TALE. ()
• AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MRS DACRE. ()
• EPISTLE TO HER FRIENDS AT GARTMORE. ()
• AN EPISTLE TO MISS ISABELLA GRAHAM OF GARTMORE. ()
• THE FAREWELL TO AFFECTION. ()
• FOR THE CARLISLE HUNT. November, 1788 ()
• HAD MY DADDIE LEFT ME GEAR ENOUGH. ()
• HOPE. ()
• I AM OF A TEMPER FIXED AS A DECREE. ()
• I'LL HAE A NEW COATIE. ()
• I'M TIBBY FOWLER O' THE GLEN. ()
• I'VE GOTTEN A ROCK, I'VE GOTTEN A REEL. ()
• IN THAT EYE WHERE EXPRESSION. ()
• IN THE DREAM OF THE MOMENT. ()
• IN THE SEARCH OF GOOD HUMOUR. ()
• THE INVITATION. TO TWO SISTERS. ()
• LETTERS OF THE LOVERS. ()
• THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, CHOSEN THE EMBLEM OF INNOCENCE. ()
• THE LILY'S TRIUMPH OVER THE ROSE. ()
• THE LOSS OF THE ROEBUCK. ()
• MAY NOT THE LOVE OF PRAISE BE AN INCENTIVE TO VIRTUE? ()
• THE MEETING. ()
• MOONLIGHT. ()
• THE NABOB. ()
• NAY, NAY, CENSOR TIME. ()
• NOW SANDY MAUN AWA. ()
• THE NUN'S RETURN TO THE WORLD, BY THE DECREE OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE, FEBRUARY, 1790. ()
• O BID ME NOT TO WANDER. Written when earnestly entreated to go to the South of France for the recovery of her health. ()
• O DINNA THINK, MY BONNIE LASS. ()
• O DONALD! YE ARE JUST THE MAN. ()
• O JENNY DEAR, I'VE COURTED LANG. ()
• O JENNY DEAR, THE WORD IS GANE. ()
• O JENNY DEAR. ()
• O THERE IS NOT A SHARPER DART. ()
• O WHERE IS THE SPLENDOUR. ()
• O WHY SHOULD MORTALS SUFFER CARE. ()
• OLD HARRY'S RETURN. ()
• ON COLLINS'S ODE ON THE PASSIONS, AS RECITED BY MRS ESTEN ()
• ON IMAGINED HAPPINESS IN HUMBLE STATIONS. ()
• ON THE DANGEROUS ILLNESS OF MY FRIEND MRS L. 13TH MAY, 1788. ()
• ON THE MARRIAGE OF MISS JOHANNA GALE WITH THE REV. P. GRAHAM, RECTOR OF ARTHURET. 18TH FEBRUARY, 1792. ()
• A PETITION TO APRIL. WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS, 1793. ()
• PITY'S DESCENT TO EARTH, AND ADVICE TO FRIENDSHIP. ()
• THE RECALL TO AFFECTION. ()
• THE SILLER CROUN. ()
• THE SOLDIER'S RETURN. ()
• SPRING. APRIL, 1786. ()
• STOKLEWATH; OR, THE CUMBRIAN VILLAGE. ()
• THOUGH BACCHUS MAY BOAST. ()
• TO A LADY WHO WENT INTO THE COUNTRY IN APRIL. ()
• TO A LADY, WHO FREQUENTLY WITHDREW FROM COMPANY. ()
• TO THE FLOWER LOVE-IN-IDLENESS, AND A PETITION TO THE FAIRIES TO BRING INDIFFERENCE. ()
• TO-MORROW. WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS. ()
• THE TOILING DAY HIS TASK HAS DUIN. ()
• THE WAEFU' HEART. ()
• WE'VE HED SEC A DURDUM. ()
• WEY, NED, MAN! ()
• WHAT AILS THIS HEART O' MINE! ()
• WHEN HOME WE RETURN. ()
• WHEN NIGHT'S DARK MANTLE. ()
• WHEN SEVEREST FOES IMPENDING. ()
• WHEN THE SOFT TEAR STEALS SILENTLY. ()
• WHEN THE SUNBEAMS OF JOY. ()
• WRITTEN IN A CHURCHYARD, ON SEEING A NUMBER OF CATTLE GRAZING IN IT. ()
• WRITTEN ON A GLOOMY DAY, IN SICKNESS. THACKWOOD, 4TH JUNE, 1786. ()

• Blamire, Susanna, 1747-1794. The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire “The muse of Cumberland.” Now for the first time collected by Henry Lonsdale, M.D. with a preface, memoir, and notes by Patrick Maxwell, ... Edinburgh: John Menzies, 61 Princes Street; R. Tyas, London; D. Robertson, Glasgow; and C. Thurnam, Carlisle. MDCCCXLII., 1842.
  • STOKLEWATH; OR, THE CUMBRIAN VILLAGE.
  • THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, CHOSEN THE EMBLEM OF INNOCENCE.
  • THE INVITATION. TO TWO SISTERS.
  • THE FAREWELL TO AFFECTION.
  • THE RECALL TO AFFECTION.
  • TO A LADY, WHO FREQUENTLY WITHDREW FROM COMPANY.
  • THE LILY'S TRIUMPH OVER THE ROSE.
  • MAY NOT THE LOVE OF PRAISE BE AN INCENTIVE TO VIRTUE?
  • THE BOWER OF ELEGANCE. ADDRESSED TO A VERY ACCOMPLISHED WOMAN.
  • THE ADIEU AND RECALL TO LOVE.
  • TO-MORROW. WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS.
  • ADDRESS TO HEALTH. — 1784.
  • THE NUN'S RETURN TO THE WORLD, BY THE DECREE OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE, FEBRUARY, 1790.
  • ON IMAGINED HAPPINESS IN HUMBLE STATIONS.
  • WRITTEN ON A GLOOMY DAY, IN SICKNESS. THACKWOOD, 4TH JUNE, 1786.
  • TO A LADY WHO WENT INTO THE COUNTRY IN APRIL.
  • MOONLIGHT.
  • BRIDE-CAKE.
  • SPRING. APRIL, 1786.
  • PITY'S DESCENT TO EARTH, AND ADVICE TO FRIENDSHIP.
  • ON THE DANGEROUS ILLNESS OF MY FRIEND MRS L. 13TH MAY, 1788.
  • TO THE FLOWER LOVE-IN-IDLENESS, AND A PETITION TO THE FAIRIES TO BRING INDIFFERENCE.
  • ON COLLINS'S ODE ON THE PASSIONS, AS RECITED BY MRS ESTEN
  • LETTERS OF THE LOVERS.
  • EDWIN AND ALICIA. A TALE.
  • ADDRESS TO MISS J. GALE ON HER MARRIAGE WITH THE REV. F. GRAHAM, RECTOR OF ARTHURET.
  • A PETITION TO APRIL. WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS, 1793.
  • AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MRS DACRE.
  • HOPE.
  • EPISTLE TO HER FRIENDS AT GARTMORE.
  • THE DESCENT OF PITY. 20TH NOVEMBER, 1781.
  • A CALL TO HOPE. 22D MAY, 1792.
  • WRITTEN IN A CHURCHYARD, ON SEEING A NUMBER OF CATTLE GRAZING IN IT.
  • AN EPISTLE TO MISS ISABELLA GRAHAM OF GARTMORE.
  • A CAUTION TO MISS B.
  • THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS.
  • NAY, NAY, CENSOR TIME.
  • THOUGH BACCHUS MAY BOAST.
  • IN THE DREAM OF THE MOMENT.
  • WHEN THE SUNBEAMS OF JOY.
  • FOR THE CARLISLE HUNT. November, 1788
  • IN THAT EYE WHERE EXPRESSION.
  • IN THE SEARCH OF GOOD HUMOUR.
  • COME, MORTALS, ENLIVEN THE HOUR.
  • WHEN THE SOFT TEAR STEALS SILENTLY.
  • O WHERE IS THE SPLENDOUR.
  • O BID ME NOT TO WANDER. Written when earnestly entreated to go to the South of France for the recovery of her health.
  • WHAT AILS THIS HEART O' MINE!
  • I'VE GOTTEN A ROCK, I'VE GOTTEN A REEL.
  • WHEN HOME WE RETURN.
  • O WHY SHOULD MORTALS SUFFER CARE.
  • OLD HARRY'S RETURN.
  • THE NABOB.
  • THE SILLER CROUN.
  • THE WAEFU' HEART.
  • THE TOILING DAY HIS TASK HAS DUIN.
  • WEY, NED, MAN!
  • THE CUMBERLAND SCOLD.
  • BARLEY BROTH.
  • THE MEETING.
  • WE'VE HED SEC A DURDUM.
  • AULD ROBIN FORBES.
  • THE SOLDIER'S RETURN.
  • AGAIN MAUN ABSENCE CHILL MY SOUL.
  • ON THE MARRIAGE OF MISS JOHANNA GALE WITH THE REV. P. GRAHAM, RECTOR OF ARTHURET. 18TH FEBRUARY, 1792.
  • 'TWAS WHEN THE SUN SLID DOWN YON HILL.
  • THE AULD CARLE WAD TAK ME FAIN.
  • I'M TIBBY FOWLER O' THE GLEN.
  • AE NIGHT IN DARK DECEMBER.
  • HAD MY DADDIE LEFT ME GEAR ENOUGH.
  • O JENNY DEAR.
  • DEAR NANCY.
  • O JENNY DEAR, THE WORD IS GANE.
  • O JENNY DEAR, I'VE COURTED LANG.
  • BEHOLD, MY AMANDA.
  • O THERE IS NOT A SHARPER DART.
  • I AM OF A TEMPER FIXED AS A DECREE.
  • WHEN SEVEREST FOES IMPENDING.
  • I'LL HAE A NEW COATIE.
  • O DINNA THINK, MY BONNIE LASS.
  • NOW SANDY MAUN AWA.
  • THE LOSS OF THE ROEBUCK.
  • A CURE FOR LOVE.
  • WHEN NIGHT'S DARK MANTLE.
  • O DONALD! YE ARE JUST THE MAN.

Source editions

• Blamire, Susanna, 1747-1794. The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire “The muse of Cumberland.” Now for the first time collected by Henry Lonsdale, M.D. with a preface, memoir, and notes by Patrick Maxwell, ... Edinburgh: John Menzies, 61 Princes Street; R. Tyas, London; D. Robertson, Glasgow; and C. Thurnam, Carlisle. MDCCCXLII., 1842.

Bibliography

ODNB 2600; DMI 1318

Biography

• Maycock, Christopher. A passionate poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: a biography. Penzance: Hypatia, 2003. Print.

Reference works

• Baines, Paul, Julian Ferraro, Pat Rogers, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 28-29. Print.
• Radcliffe, David H., ed. Susanna Blamire (1747-1794). 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=33675.
• Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 50. Print.

Criticism

• Betz, Paul F. Romantic archaeologies. Wordsworth Circle 27(1) (1996): 42-44. Print.
• Fernández Cuesta, Julia and Christopher Langmuir. Scoto-Cumbrian? The Representation of Dialect in the Works of Josiah Relph and Susanna Blamire. Sauer, Hans and Gaby Waxenberger, eds. Recording English, Researching English, Transforming English. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2013. 265-284. Print.
• Page, Judith W. Susanna Blamire's ecological imagination: Stoklewath; or, The Cumbrian Village. Women's Writing 18(3) (2011): 385-404. Print.

Teaching

• Lewis, Becky. The Appeal of the Domestic in the First-Year Course: Susanna Blamire. Behrendt, Stephen C. and Harriet Kramer Linkin, eds. Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period. New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America, 1997. 157-160. Print.