Mary Tighe

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Mary Tighe (née Blackford) (1772 - 1810), was an English poet.

The daughter of a clergyman, Mary Tighe made an unhappy marriage, but her beauty and pleasant manners made her 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 John Keats.

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.