Mary Tighe (née Blachford)

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• Address to My Harp. ()
• Addressed to My Brother. 1805. ()
• Bryan Byrne, of Glenmalure. ()
• A Faithful Friend is the Medicine of Life. SON OF SIRACH . ()
• Hagar in the Desert. ()
• Imitated from Jeremiah. — Chap: xxxi. v. 15. ()
• The Lily. May, 1809. ()
• Morning. ()
• On Leaving Killarney. August 5, 1800. ()
• On Receiving a Branch of Mezereon Which Flowered at Woodstock. DECEMBER, 1809. ()
• The Picture. WRITTEN FOR ANGELA. ()
• Pleasure. ()
• Psyche [Canto I.] (); [Psyche] Canto II. (); [Psyche] Canto III. (); [Psyche] Canto IV. (); [Psyche] Canto V. (); [Psyche] Canto VI. ()
• The Shawl's Petition, to Lady Asgill. ()
• Sonnet Addressed to My Mother ()
• Sonnet Written at Woodstock, in the County of Kilkenny, the Seat of William Tighe. June 30, 1809. ()
• Sonnet. ()
• Sonnet. ()
• Sonnet. ()
• Sonnet. ()
• Sonnet. ()
• Sonnet. ()
• To Death. ()
• To Fortune. ()
• To Lady Charlemont, in Return for Her Presents of Flowers ()
• To the Memory of Margaret Tighe: TAKEN FROM US JUNE 7TH, 1804. — ÆTAT 85. ()
• To Time. ()
• To W. P. Esq. Avondale. ()
• The Vartree. ()
• Verses Written at the Commencement of Spring. — 1802. ()
• Verses Written in Sickness. December, 1804. ()
• Written at Killarney. July, 20 1800. ()
• Written at Rossana. ()
• Written at Rossana. November 18, 1799. ()
• Written at Scarborough. August, 1799. ()
• Written at the Eagle's Nest, Killarney. July 26, 1800. ()
• Written at West-Aston. June, 1808. ()
• Written for Her Niece S. K. ()
• Written in a Copy of Psyche WHICH HAD BEEN IN THE LIBRARY OF C. J. FOX. April, 1809. ()
• Written in Autumn. ()
• Written in the Church-Yard at Malvern. ()

• Tighe, Mary, 1772-1810. Psyche, With Other Poems. London: Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW, 1811. 314p.
  • Sonnet Addressed to My Mother
  • Psyche [Canto I.]
  • [Psyche] Canto II.
  • [Psyche] Canto III.
  • [Psyche] Canto IV.
  • [Psyche] Canto V.
  • [Psyche] Canto VI.
  • Written in a Copy of Psyche WHICH HAD BEEN IN THE LIBRARY OF C. J. FOX. April, 1809.
  • Written at Scarborough. August, 1799.
  • Sonnet.
  • Written in Autumn.
  • Sonnet.
  • Written in the Church-Yard at Malvern.
  • Sonnet.
  • Sonnet.
  • To Time.
  • Sonnet.
  • Sonnet.
  • Written at Rossana. November 18, 1799.
  • Written at Rossana.
  • Written at the Eagle's Nest, Killarney. July 26, 1800.
  • Written at Killarney. July, 20 1800.
  • On Leaving Killarney. August 5, 1800.
  • To Death.
  • To W. P. Esq. Avondale.
  • Addressed to My Brother. 1805.
  • Address to My Harp.
  • Morning.
  • The Vartree.
  • A Faithful Friend is the Medicine of Life. SON OF SIRACH .
  • Verses Written at the Commencement of Spring. — 1802.
  • To the Memory of Margaret Tighe: TAKEN FROM US JUNE 7TH, 1804. — ÆTAT 85.
  • Verses Written in Sickness. December, 1804.
  • Pleasure.
  • Written for Her Niece S. K.
  • To Fortune.
  • The Picture. WRITTEN FOR ANGELA.
  • The Shawl's Petition, to Lady Asgill.
  • To Lady Charlemont, in Return for Her Presents of Flowers
  • Written at West-Aston. June, 1808.
  • Bryan Byrne, of Glenmalure.
  • Imitated from Jeremiah. — Chap: xxxi. v. 15.
  • Hagar in the Desert.
  • The Lily. May, 1809.
  • Sonnet Written at Woodstock, in the County of Kilkenny, the Seat of William Tighe. June 30, 1809.
  • On Receiving a Branch of Mezereon Which Flowered at Woodstock. DECEMBER, 1809.

Source editions

• Tighe, Mary, 1772-1810. 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.
• Linkin, Harriet Kramer, ed. Verses Transcribed for H.T. by Mary Tighe. Romantic Circles, Feb. 2015. Web. 4 Sep. 2019. https://romantic-circles.org/editions/tighe_verses

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. https://web.archive.org/web/20170908014740/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.