Psyche Or The Legend Of Love PDF Download

This is one of the famous fair copy manuscripts of Mary Tighe's popular poem "Psyche; or, The Legend of Love" an allegorical poem in Spenserian stanzas based on the story of Cupid and Psyche, that had well documented influence on the Romantics. Tighe began writing the poem in 1801 and steadily revised it until she had it privately printed in 1805 in an edition of 50 copies. The printed edition did not satisfy demand, as evidenced by the manuscript copy, which accurately follows the text of the 1805 printed edition, on paper watermarked 1806. The page numberes to which the final 17 notes reference were left blank by the copyist because in the manuscript copy they would not correctly correspond to the layout of the printed text. [Adapted from dealer description]