“O this waveless horizon — how it wearies the eye accustomed to the…” — Felicia Dorothea Hemans | V2Melody

“O this waveless horizon — how it wearies the eye accustomed to the sweeping outline of mountain scenery!”

Revealing how deeply the Welsh mountains had shaped her sense of landscape · Letter to Mary Howitt, 11 December 1828

Felicia Dorothea Hemans

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Felicia Dorothea Hemans

25 September 1793–16 May 1835

Felicia Dorothea Hemans, born Felicia Dorothea Browne on 25 September 1793 and dead on 16 May 1835, was among the most celebrated poets of the early nineteenth century. In her lifetime she was read with an enthusiasm now difficult to imagine: her poems circulated throughout Britain, Ireland, the United States, and the…

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“There are some writers whose works we cannot read without feeling as if we really had looked with them upon the scenes they bring before us.”

Describing the imaginative intimacy created by vivid writing · Letter to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 June 1827

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“Surely there is enough in the path which we all tread together, to make us feel that we are the children of one Father, and to prevent our allowing differences of opinion to divide our hearts.”

Appealing to shared humanity and faith above differences of belief · Letter to Joanna Baillie, Rhyllon

“It is, in my opinion, full of beauty, and of truth, developing itself clearly and sorrowfully, like almost all truth, I believe, through the colouring mists of imagination.”

Linking artistic imagination with the gradual revelation of difficult truths · Letter fragment, familiar correspondence