[LII]
First published (without the author’s permission) in the Newry Telegraph (April 19, 1817), and reprinted in many other journals. Highly praised by Byron (1822)—‘Such an ode as only Campbell could have written’—this poem was attributed to Byron himself, and claimed by many impostors. The question of authorship was settled in 1841 by the discovery of an autograph copy in a letter from Wolfe to a college friend.
[LIII]–[LIV]
Works, with a Memoir (7 vols., William Blackwood & Sons, 1839). Most of Mrs. Hemans’ poems were first published in periodicals, such as The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and The New Monthly Magazine. The latter was, for a time, edited by Thomas Campbell, not very successfully. The ‘Author’s Note’ on the first number is as follows:—‘It is supposed that war was anciently proclaimed in Britain by sending messengers in different directions through the land, each bearing a bended bow; and that peace was in like manner announced by a bow unstrung, and, therefore, straight.’
[LV]–[LVI]
The first (reprinted from Knight’s Quarterly Magazine) was included in the 1848 edition of the Lays of Ancient Rome. It is dated 1832.
[LVII]–[LVIII]
Alma and other Poems (1855), and Poems (New Edition, 2 vols., Macmillan & Co., 1885). By permission of Mr. A. Chenevix Trench.
[LIX]
Last Poems (Smith, Elder & Co., 1862). This volume was published after the author’s death. By permission of the publishers.