Felicia Hemans (1793 - 1835)

Poet and dramatist Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1793–1835) was the sole woman poet of the Romantic period to appear with male contemporaries in canon‐making collections in both ...

Felicia Hemans’s poetry is guided by an aesthetic of acute interestedness, but unlike most sentimental writers, Hemans treats feeling as something with epistemological value. This...

Chapter four analyzes Hemans’s emphasis on love, gender, and ‘the affections’ throughout her career. The chapter begins by outlining the discourses of ‘the affections’ in eighteent...

Rather than dutifully producing conventional elegies bemoaning the loss of the exemplary woman poet immediately after Felicia Hemans’s death in 1835, Letitia Elizabeth Landon darin...

Abstract Felicia Hemans was one of the most highly influential and widely read poets of the nineteenth century, both in Britain and America. Lord Byron considered He...

This chapter builds on the recent influx of scholarship studying the intersection of new media forms, the development of women’s poetry, and the public figure of the poetess. Whil...

The most successful, respected, and influential Romantic woman poet, Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) was also a playwright whose dramatic works are relevant both to the development of h...

This chapter focuses on the poem, “Casabianca,” by Felicia Hemans, which presents the spectacle of a child sailor who is blown to pieces because his sense of duty keeps him standin...