Dear colleagues,
Romantic Circles is very pleased to announce the publication of a new edition, Verses Transcribed for H. T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin:
http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/tighe_verses
The volume represents a manuscript collection of 121 original lyric poems with 72 original illustrations that Mary Tighe prepared in 1805 as she was contemplating publishing a volume of poetry that would feature her epic romance "Psyche; or, the Legend of Love" accompanied by a selection of her lyrics. Instead she opted to print 50 copies of Psyche; or, The Legend of Love (London, 1805) without any additions from Verses in a small private edition that she dedicated and distributed to family and friends (her only publication). After she died her family published Psyche, with Other Poems (London, 1811), which offered a carefully culled and re-ordered selection of 29 lyrics from Verses (with 10 additional lyrics).
Verses Transcribed for H.T. provides a unique opportunity to see Tighe as the determining editor of her own collected poems. Organized in deliberate clusters, Verses is a self-consciously constructed aesthetic artifact that radically revises prior knowledge of Tighe's literary, visual, and material production. This edition contains a comprehensive introduction by the editor, a fully annotated and searchable transcription of the manuscript, and digital images of the manuscript pages (made available through the kind courtesy of the National Library of Ireland).
Steve Jones
Co-Editor, Romantic Circles
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Steven Jones
Professor of English
Co-Director, CTSDH
Loyola University Chicago
Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Advanced Research Collaborative
CUNY Graduate Center, NY 2014-2015
http://stevenejones.org
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