The Poems of Felicia Hemans
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Childhood verses, family poems and historical scenes share space in this wide collection of Felicia Hemans's writing. The contents begin with a birthday poem written for her mother at eight, then move through domestic affections, Welsh melodies, translations and poems drawn from Greek and Spanish subjects. Sonnets and songs sit alongside longer narrative works, with critical annotations supplied for several sections.
One narrative turns from a public procession in Spain to an intensely personal recognition. A speaker watches prisoners condemned for their beliefs and discovers a friend from childhood among them. Memories of shared games and military service bring conscience and loyalty into conflict with accepted custom. Readers interested in nineteenth-century verse can find both intimate family feeling and the larger claims of faith, country and freedom across the collection.
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- Author
- Mrs. Hemans
- Reading time
- About 34 hours
- Pages
- 1,578
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Classical Poetry
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