Description:
Poet Lydia Huntley Sigourney's work, hugely popular and influential in the nineteenth century, is now collected in a modern edition.
Review Quotes:
"When Edgar Allan Poe wrote to Lydia Huntley Sigourney that his magazine would not be complete without a poem by her, he correctly gauged his reader's interest. Sigourney was the most popular American woman poet in both the United States and England in the early nineteenth century, and she earned this reputation by virtue of her remarkable skill as a writer and the extraordinary range of her themes, poetic forms, and literary genres. This rich collection of her poetry, fiction, and essays amply demonstrates her advocacy on behalf of women's domestic culture, the new republican nation, Christian evangelism, and the American landscape. Gary Kelly's wide selection of Sigourney's work introduces the reader--at long last!--to the broad compass of her themes." -- Dorothy Z. Baker, University of Houston
"Gary Kelly's much needed edition will make a critical difference to many fields by making Lydia Sigourney's work available for students and general readers in a comprehensive manner. His brilliant interdisciplinary introduction will allow scholars to take Sigourney seriously and in doing so to revise their understanding of Romanticism, American Studies, and women's writing." -- Mary Lou Kete, University of Vermont