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Mary Tighe (Blackford) (1772 - 1810), poet, daughter of a clergyman, made
an unhappy marriage, though she had beauty and amiable manners, and was
highly popular in society. She wrote a good deal of verse; but her chief
poem was a translation in Spenserian stanza of the tale of Cupid and Psyche, which won the admiration of such men as Sir J. Mackintosh,
Moore, and Keats.
- This article is originally from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.
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