Anne Hunter (née Home)

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• ADDRESSED TO MRS. G. OF THE PRIORY, CORNWALL. ()
• A BALLAD OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ()
• [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO MY SON AT SCHOOL, AGED 13, JUNE 11. ()
• [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME, AGED 15, AT CAMBRIDGE. ()
• [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME, AGED 23, A LIEUTENANT IN THE ARMY, THEN WITH HIS REGIMENT IN CORSICA, 1793. ()
• [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME, AGED 26, A CAPTAIN OF INFANTRY IN PORTUGAL, 1798. ()
• CARISBROOK CASTLE, A POEM, WITH NOTES. ()
• THE DEATH SONG, WRITTEN FOR, AND ADAPTED TO, AN ORIGINAL INDIAN AIR. ()
• THE DIRGE OF AMORET. ()
• ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM SEWARD, ESQ. WHO DIED APRIL 24, 1799. ()
• ELEGY. ()
• EPITAPH FOR MY FATHER. ()
• FAIRY REVELS, A SONG. ()
• THE FAREWELL, A SONG. ()
• THE GENIUS OF THE MOUNTAINS OF BALAGATA, IN THE EAST INDIES, BEWAILS THE MISERIES BOUGHT UPON HIS COUNTRY. ()
• LA DOUCE CHIMERE. ()
• THE LAMENTATION OF MARY STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTS, ADAPTED TO A VERY ANCIENT SCOTTISH AIR, SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN HER OWN COMPOSITION. ()
• LAURA TO PETRARCH. ()
• LAURA. ()
• LELIA; OR, THE MANIAC'S SONG. ()
• MAY DAY. ()
• A MERMAID'S SONG. ()
• NOVEMBER, 1784. ()
• ODE TO CONDUIT VALE, BLACKHEATH. ()
• ODE TO THE OLD YEAR, 1787. ()
• REMEMBRANCE, A SONG. ()
• THE ROUNDELAY. ()
• THE SONG AT MARIA'S GRAVE. IN TWO PARTS. ()
• THE SONG OF THE WANDERING LADY, FOUNDED ON A TRUE STORY. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONNET, AFTER THE DEATH OF LAURA. ()
• THE SPIRIT'S SONG. ()
• TIME. ()
• TO A FRIEND ON NEW YEAR'S DAY. ()
• TO JAMES BARRY, ESQ. ON THE DESIGN OF HIS SERIES OF PICTURES PAINTED FOR THE SOCIETY INSTITUTED FOR THE PROMOTING ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. ()
• TO Mrs. DELAINY, UPON THE MARKS OF ROYAL BOUNTY WHICH SHE RECEIVED AT A VERY ADVANCED AGE, AFTER THE DEATH OF HER FRIEND THE DUCHESS OF PORTLAND, IN 1786. ()
• TO MY DAUGHTER, ON BEING SEPARATED FROM HER ON HER MARRIAGE ()
• TO THE MEMORY OF A LOVELY INFANT, WRITTEN SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH. ()
• TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. ()
• TO THE NIGHTINGALE. ()
• A VOW TO FORTUNE. ()
• WILLIAM AND NANCY, A BALLAD. ()
• WINTER, A SONNET. ()

• Hunter, Anne Home (Mrs. John), 1742-1821. Poems, by Mrs. John Hunter. London: Printed for T. Payne, Mews Gate, by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 1802.
  • NOVEMBER, 1784.
  • ODE TO THE OLD YEAR, 1787.
  • LA DOUCE CHIMERE.
  • ADDRESSED TO MRS. G. OF THE PRIORY, CORNWALL.
  • ODE TO CONDUIT VALE, BLACKHEATH.
  • TO Mrs. DELAINY, UPON THE MARKS OF ROYAL BOUNTY WHICH SHE RECEIVED AT A VERY ADVANCED AGE, AFTER THE DEATH OF HER FRIEND THE DUCHESS OF PORTLAND, IN 1786.
  • TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON.
  • [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO MY SON AT SCHOOL, AGED 13, JUNE 11.
  • [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME, AGED 15, AT CAMBRIDGE.
  • [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME, AGED 23, A LIEUTENANT IN THE ARMY, THEN WITH HIS REGIMENT IN CORSICA, 1793.
  • [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME, AGED 26, A CAPTAIN OF INFANTRY IN PORTUGAL, 1798.
  • TO MY DAUGHTER, ON BEING SEPARATED FROM HER ON HER MARRIAGE
  • TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
  • CARISBROOK CASTLE, A POEM, WITH NOTES.
  • TO THE MEMORY OF A LOVELY INFANT, WRITTEN SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH.
  • A VOW TO FORTUNE.
  • LAURA TO PETRARCH.
  • LAURA.
  • SONNET, AFTER THE DEATH OF LAURA.
  • WINTER, A SONNET.
  • TIME.
  • TO JAMES BARRY, ESQ. ON THE DESIGN OF HIS SERIES OF PICTURES PAINTED FOR THE SOCIETY INSTITUTED FOR THE PROMOTING ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.
  • TO A FRIEND ON NEW YEAR'S DAY.
  • ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM SEWARD, ESQ. WHO DIED APRIL 24, 1799.
  • EPITAPH FOR MY FATHER.
  • THE LAMENTATION OF MARY STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTS, ADAPTED TO A VERY ANCIENT SCOTTISH AIR, SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN HER OWN COMPOSITION.
  • THE SONG OF THE WANDERING LADY, FOUNDED ON A TRUE STORY.
  • THE DEATH SONG, WRITTEN FOR, AND ADAPTED TO, AN ORIGINAL INDIAN AIR.
  • WILLIAM AND NANCY, A BALLAD.
  • LELIA; OR, THE MANIAC'S SONG.
  • THE GENIUS OF THE MOUNTAINS OF BALAGATA, IN THE EAST INDIES, BEWAILS THE MISERIES BOUGHT UPON HIS COUNTRY.
  • A BALLAD OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
  • ELEGY.
  • THE DIRGE OF AMORET.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • THE FAREWELL, A SONG.
  • REMEMBRANCE, A SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • A MERMAID'S SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • THE SPIRIT'S SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • FAIRY REVELS, A SONG.
  • THE ROUNDELAY.
  • MAY DAY.
  • THE SONG AT MARIA'S GRAVE. IN TWO PARTS.

Source editions

• Hunter, Anne Home (Mrs. John), 1742-1821. Poems, by Mrs. John Hunter. London: Printed for T. Payne, Mews Gate, by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 1802.

Bibliography

ODNB 14215; DMI 1738

Editions

• Grigson, Caroline, ed. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter: Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Liverpool English Texts and Studies 56. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009. Print.

Reference works

• Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 169-170. Print.

Criticism

• Brown, A. Peter. Musical Settings of Anne Hunter's Poetry: From National Song to Canzonetta. Journal of the American Musicological Society 47(1) (1994): 39-89. Print.
• Floyd, Daniel F. Anne Hunter's Poetry in Manuscript: A Rare Discovery. Notes and Queries 55 (253)(4) (2008): 411-413. Print.
• Slagle, Judith Bailey. Opposing the Medical World: The Poetry of Anne Home Hunter. Wordsworth Circle 39(3) (2008): 102-107. Print.