Mary Tighe

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Mary Tighe

Mary Tighe (born October 9, 1772 in Dublin as Mary Blachford , † March 24, 1810 in Inistioge ) was an Irish writer of the Romantic period , who was mainly responsible for her poem Psyche, published in 1811 on a larger scale ; or, the Legend of Love is known.

life and work

Mary Blachford was born in Dublin in 1772, the second child of the Protestant clergyman William Blachford and his wife Theodosia Tighe. Her father died shortly after she was born, leaving the family wealthy. Her mother was a strong supporter of her daughter's education and spurred her on to literary activity. Shortly before her twenty-first birthday, Mary Blachford married her cousin Henry Tighe, against her mother's wishes and against her own beliefs. During the 1790s, Mary Tighe and her husband lived in England most of the time , but saw the Irish Rebellion of 1798 in Ireland. Both were opponents of the Act of Union . In 1801 the couple moved to Ireland.

In the years 1801 and 1802 Mary Tighe wrote the work Psyche; or, the Legend of Love . The poem, held in Spenser punches , dealt with the love between Cupid and Psyche and comprised 3,348 lines in six canti. In 1803 she finished her novel Selena , which she never published. In the next year, tuberculosis began to emerge, which would bother her in the years that followed. The first publication of Psyche appeared in 1805 in an edition of 50, which Tighe distributed in their surroundings, from where the work was copied and passed on to a wider audience. On March 24, 1810, Mary Tighe died of illness on the Woodstock estate near Inistioge.

Her work Psyche became known to a larger audience when it was published in 1811 by her cousin William Tighe along with other poems in the volume Psyche, with Other Poems . Mary Tighes' works have received critical acclaim and have made their way to the United States and France . She found posthumous attention among many well-known writers and is considered an important influence on Felicia Hemans and John Keats .

Publications

  • Psyche; or, the Legend of Love. London, 1805.
  • Psyche, with Other Poems. London, 1811.
  • Mary, a Series of Reflections during Twenty Years. Dublin, 1811.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linkin, 2004. pp. XIX – XXII, p. XV
  2. ↑ Linkin, 2004. pp. XIX f.
  3. ↑ a b c Linkin, 2004. S. XXI f.
  4. ↑ a b Linkin, 2004. S. XV f.
  5. ↑ Linkin, 2004. pp. XVI ff.

literature

  • Harriet Kramer Linkin (Ed.), Mary Tighe: The Collected Poems and Journals of Mary Tighe. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. ISBN 0-8131-2343-7

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personal data
SURNAME Tighe, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blachford Tighe, Mary; Blachford Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1810
Place of death Inistioge