" Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), one of the most influential and
widely-read poets of the nineteenth century, wrote Records of Woman
in 1828 at the height of her long career. In the series, which
includes nineteen poems about exemplary lives, Hemans explores what
it means to be a woman, challenging traditional beliefs while at
the same time reinforcing persistent stereotypes. Her work
celebrates the lives, events, and imagined thoughts of unremembered
women from different cultures and time periods whose deeds show
nobility of spirit and inner strength. In her introduction, Paula
Feldman examines how Hemans's poetry shaped and was shaped by
nineteenth-century literary tastes, and she reconsiders the
aesthetic value of Hemans's work and the current understanding of
the nature of Romanticism.
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