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Verde song, The Zegri maid, The last one, The bird of Ebro,
Spanish evening hymn, Old Spanish battle song) (Jan); The rock
of Cader-Idris: a legend of Wales, Songs for evening music (1–9)
[see later Songs for summer hours] (Mar); The palace of the
Maremma (May); Records of passing thought: a series of nine
sonnets [later Records of the spring of 1834 i–ix] (Aug); Records of
passing thought: a series of nine sonnets [x–xvii later Records of
the spring of 1834 x–xvii; xviii uncollected] (Sep). 1835: Thoughts
during sickness [7 sonnets] (Mar).
Literary Magnet. 1826: To the author of The excursion and the
Lyrical ballads [later to the poet Wordsworth] (Apr). 1827: Angel
visits, Evening song of the Tyrolese peasants, The penitent’s
offering, The wings of the dove (July–Dec).
Monthly Magazine or British Register. 1826: The traveller at the
source of the Nile (July); Casabianca [rptd in Poetical Album 1830]
(Aug); The adopted child (Sep); The Chevalier d’Assas [later The
fall of d’Assas: a ballad of France] (Oct); The illuminated city
(Nov); The Queen of Prussia’s tomb (Dec). 1827: The palm tree
(Jan); The spells of home (Feb); The things that change [uncollected]
(Mar); Kindred hearts, The old warrior’s grave [later
Marshall Schwerin’s grave] (May); The world in the open air
(July); Our daily paths (Oct). 1828: The parting of summer (Feb);
The dreamer (June); The King of Arragon’s lament for his brother
(July); The forsaken hearth (Sep).
Dublin University Magazine. 1833: Dying bird’s prophecy;
Mignon’s song in remembrance of Italy (July). 1835: The poetry of
the Psalms (June).
Athenaeum. 1833: Prologue, by Mrs Hemans, to the tragedy of
‘Fiesco’ (16 Feb); Song (Look on me with thy cloudless eyes) (16
Nov).
The above list is not complete. Hemans published regularly in verse annuals,
including The Amulet (1824, 1826, 1831–4), Bijou: (1828–9), Cameo,
Christmas Box (1829), Forget-me-not (1829, 1834–5), Friendship’s
Offering (1827, 1829), Juvenile Forget-me-not (1826–9, 1834–5), Juvenile
Keepsake (1829), Juvenile Souvenir (1829), Keepsake (1829), Literary
Souvenir (1825–30, 1833), New Year’s Gift (1829–30), Pledge of
Friendship (1827–8), Poetical Album (1828, 1830), Remembrance
(1830–1), and Winter’s Wreath (1828–32). See Boyle, Bibliographies, above.
Letters, journals, etc
Chorley, H. F. Memorials of Mrs Hemans. 2 vols 1836, New York
1836. Contains extracts of letters.
See also Hughes, Smith, in §2.
Translations, commentary
Translations from Camoens and other poets with original poetry.
Oxford and London 1818.
reviews: Quart Rev Oct 1820; Ladies’ Monthly Museum n.s. 13
1821.
Italian lit: no 2, The Alcestis of Alfieri. Edinburgh Mag Dec 1820,
rptd as Scenes from the Alcestis of Alfieri, NMM Feb 1834
[without choruses]; no 3, Il conte di Carmognola, a tragedy, by
Alessandro Manzoni, Edinburgh Mag Feb 1821; no 4, Caius
Gracchus, a tragedy, by Monti, Edinburgh Mag June 1821.
Patriotic effusions of the Italian poets. Edinburgh Mag June 1821; 4
rptd as Patriotic lays of Italy, NMM Apr 1834.
Passages translated from the ‘Iphigenia’ of Goethe. NMM May 1832.
German studies no 1. Scenes and passages from the ‘Tasso’ of
Goethe. NMM Jan 1834.
On a lady who died at sea. Trn of Camoens. Athenaeum 9 Aug 1834.
Rev and rptd from Translations from Camoens and other poets.
‘iana’, imitations, elegies
Jewsbury, M. J. Lays of leisure hours. 1829.
Jewsbury, M. J. The three histories. 1830, Boston 1831.
Landon, L. E. Stanzas on the death of Mrs Hemans. NMM July 1835.
Browning, E. B. Stanzas addressed to Miss Landon. NMM Sep 1835;
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
rptd as Stanzas on the death of Mrs Hemans written in reference
to Miss Landon’s poem on the same subject, in The seraphim and
other poems, 1838.
Wordsworth, W. Extempore effusion upon the death of James
Hogg. 1837. (1835 Athenaeum version lacks stanza on Hemans.)
Landon, L. E. Felicia Hemans. Fisher’s Drawing-Room Scrap Book,
1838, Leipzig 1838.
Thackeray, W. M. Mrs Perkins’s ball [‘Miss Bunion’]. In The
Christmas books of Mr M. A. Titmarsh, 1846.
Landor, W. S. The heroines of England. Examiner 2 June 1849. To the
author of Festus: 0n the classick and romantick. Examiner 29 Dec
1849; rptd in Heroic idylls, 1863.
Singer, O. The landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, a cantata. Cincinnati
1876.
Thomas, A. G. and C. V. Stanford. The swan and the skylark: a
cantata. 1894. Words by Hemans, Keats, Shelley.
Ritchie, A. T. Felicia felix. In her Blackstick papers, 1908.
Coward, N. The stately homes of England. In his Operette, 1938.
Bishop, E. Casabianca. In her North and south, Boston 1946.
Woods, R. L. Famous poems and the little-known stories behind
them. New York 1961.
This list, especially of musical settings, is not complete.
§2
Selected works of criticism and biography
Remarks on Mrs Hemans’s poems. Edinburgh Mag Nov 1819.
The living poets of England. Literary Magnet n.s. 1 Mar 1826.
[Bancroft, G.] Mrs Hemans’s poems. North Amer Rev n.s. 30 Apr 1827.
[Jeffrey, F.] Felicia Hemans. Edinburgh Rev 50 1829; rptd in his
Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, 1844.
[Jewsbury, M. J.] Felicia Hemans: Literary sketches no 1. Athenaeum
12 Feb 1831.
Biographical particulars of celebrated persons, lately deceased: Mrs
Hemans. NMM June 1835.
Landon, L. E. On the character of Mrs Hemans’s writings. NMM Aug
1835.
[Moir, D. M.] Obituary notice of Mrs Hemans. Blackwood’s
Edinburgh Mag July 1835.
Mrs Hemans. Western Monthly Mag Sep 1835.
Obituary — Mrs Hemans. GM July 1835.
Chorley, H. F. Memorials of Mrs Hemans. 2 vols. 1836, Philadelphia
1836. Portions in Athenaeum 13 June, 27 June, 11 July 1835.
reviews: Literary Gazette 3 Sep 1836, Dublin Rev Dec 1836, New
York Rev Mar 1837, Christian Rev Sep 1837.
Hervey, T. K. Life and writings of Mrs Hemans: Art xii, The vespers
of Palermo, etc. Dublin Rev 2, Dec 1836.
Lawrence, Mrs [Rose D’Aguilar]. The last autumn at a favourite residence,
with other poems: and Recollections of Mrs Hemans.
Liverpool and London 1836.
Norton, A. The poetry of Mrs Hemans. Christian Examiner 3rd ser 1
1836.
Thatcher, B. B. The poetry of Mrs Hemans. Religious Souvenir,
Philadelphia 1836.
[Butler, W. A.] The poetesses of our day. Dublin Univ Mag Aug 1837.
Genius and character of Mrs Hemans. Amer Monthly Mag Mar 1837.
Hall, S. C. Felicia Hemans. In The book of gems: poets and artists of
Great Britain vol 3, 1838.
[Hughes (Owen), Harriett Mary Browne.] Memoir of the life and
writings of Mrs Hemans. In vol 1 of The works of Mrs Hemans,
Edinburgh 1839.
reviews: Christian Examiner Jan 1840; Mrs. Hemans and the
picturesque school, Fraser’s Mag Feb 1840; Religious character of
the poetry of Mrs Hemans, Christian Rev Mar 1840.
[Tuckerman, H. T.] In Southern Literary Messenger May–June 1841;
rptd as Introd, Poems of Felicia Hemans, ed R. W. Griswold, New
York 1853.
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