Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)

Works in ECPA

alphabetical listing / listing in source editions

• AIR. [Now, at Moonlight's fairy hour] ()
• THE BUTTER-FLY TO HIS LOVE. ()
• THE FIRST HOUR OF MORNING. ()
• THE GLOW-WORM. ()
• THE MARINER. ()
• MORNING, ON THE SEA-SHORE. ()
• NIGHT. ()
• NIGHT. ()
• THE PIEDMONTESE. ()
• THE PILGRIM. ()
• RONDEAU. [Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps] ()
• THE SEA-NYMPH. ()
• SHIPWRECK. ()
• SONG OF A SPIRIT. ()
• SONG OF THE EVENING HOUR. ()
• SONG. [Life's a varied, bright illusion] ()
• SONG. [The rose that weeps with morning dew] ()
• SONNET, TO THE LILLY. ()
• SONNET. [How sweet is Love's first gentle sway] ()
• SONNET. [Morn's beaming eyes at length unclose] ()
• SONNET. [Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve] ()
• STANZAS. [How smooth that lake expands its ample breast!] ()
• STANZAS. [O'er Ilion's plains, where once the warrior bled] ()
• STORIED SONNET. ()
• SUN-RISE: A SONNET. ()
• SUN-SET. ()
• TITANIA TO HER LOVE. ()
• TO A SEA-NYMPH. ()
• TO AUTUMN. ()
• TO MELANCHOLY. ()
• TO THE BAT. ()
• TO THE NIGHTINGALE. ()
• TO THE VISIONS OF FANCY. ()
• TO THE WINDS. ()

• Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95]
  • TO THE VISIONS OF FANCY.
  • SONNET, TO THE LILLY.
  • NIGHT.
  • SONG. [Life's a varied, bright illusion]
  • SONG OF A SPIRIT.
  • SONNET. [Morn's beaming eyes at length unclose]
  • STANZAS. [How smooth that lake expands its ample breast!]
  • SUN-RISE: A SONNET.
  • TITANIA TO HER LOVE.
  • SONNET. [How sweet is Love's first gentle sway]
  • MORNING, ON THE SEA-SHORE.
  • NIGHT.
  • SUN-SET.
  • TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
  • SONG. [The rose that weeps with morning dew]
  • AIR. [Now, at Moonlight's fairy hour]
  • THE GLOW-WORM.
  • THE FIRST HOUR OF MORNING.
  • SONNET. [Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve]
  • STORIED SONNET.
  • THE PIEDMONTESE.
  • THE SEA-NYMPH.
  • RONDEAU. [Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps]
  • THE PILGRIM.
  • TO A SEA-NYMPH.
  • THE MARINER.
  • THE BUTTER-FLY TO HIS LOVE.
  • STANZAS. [O'er Ilion's plains, where once the warrior bled]
  • SONG OF THE EVENING HOUR.
  • SHIPWRECK.
  • TO AUTUMN.
  • TO THE BAT.
  • TO THE WINDS.
  • TO MELANCHOLY.

Source editions

• Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95]

Bibliography

ODNB 22974

Reference works

• Day, Gary, and Jack Lynch, gen. eds. The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660-1789. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. 3 Vols. Vol. III, 975-977. Print.
• Todd, Janet, ed. A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800. Paperback edition, revised. Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987. 262-264. Print.

Criticism

• Arnold, Ellen. Deconstructing the patriarchal palace: Ann Radcliffe's poetry in The Mysteries of Udolpho. Women and Language (1996): 21–29. Print.
• Battaglia, Beatrice. Poesia e romance in The Mysteries of Udolpho di Ann Radcliffe. Le poetesse romantiche inglesi: tra identità e genere, ed. Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Cecilia Pietropoli. Rome: Carocci, 2002. 165–179. Print.
• Carboni, Pierre. 'A romance interspersed with pieces of poetry': la citation poétique et les marges sublimes du discours dans les romans d'Ann Radcliffe. EREA 2(1) (2004): 47–53. Print.
• Stabler, Jane.  Ann Radcliffe's poetry: the poetics of refrain and inventory. Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the gothic, ed. Dale Townshend and Angela Wright. Cambridge: CUP, 2014. 185–202. Print.