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The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter

Haydn’s Tuneful Voice

Av Caroline Grigson

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Anne Home Hunter (1741-1821) was one of the most successful song writers of the second half of the eighteenth century, most famously as the poet who wrote the lyrics of many of Haydn’s songs. However her work, which included many more serious, lyrical and romantic poems has been largely forgotten. This book contains over 200 poems, some published in her life-time under her married name ‘Mrs John Hunter’, some attributed only to ‘a Lady’, and most importantly many transcribed from her manuscripts, housed in various archives and in a private collection, which are now collected for the first time. Hitherto Anne Hunter has been known almost entirely through her ‘Poems’ published in 1802, in her Introduction Isobel Armstrong argues that she saw this book as a definitive representation of her poetry. Besides her consummately skilful lyrics and songs it contains serious political odes and reflective poems. The unpublished material amplifies and extends the work of 1802. The introduction is followed by a long biographical essay by Caroline Grigson. The daughter of Robert Home, an impoverished Scottish Army surgeon, Anne Hunter spent her adult life in London where she married the famous anatomist John Hunter, with whom she lived in great style, latterly as a bluestocking hostess, until his death in 1793. The book includes many new details of her long life, her friendship with Angelica Kaufman (who painted her portrait - see cover) and the bluestocking, Elizabeth Carter. The account of Anne’s life as a widow describes her relationships with her family, her niece the playwright Joanna Baillie, and her friends, especially those of the famous Minto family, as well as the Scottish impresario George Thomson. Of especial interest is the discovery of a previously unrecorded visit that Haydn made to her during his second London visit when she was living in Blackheath. Expertly researched which Grigson’s book sets Anne Hunter’s oeuvre in the political and social context of the time and will be required reading to scholars of literature and music alike.
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Caroline Grigson FSA was, until recently, Principal Curator of the Museums at the Royal College of Surgeons. Isobel Armstrong FBA is Emeritus Professor of English at Birkbeck College London and was John Hinkley Visiting Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University in 2005. She is on the editorial boards of several academic journals and a founder and co-editor of Women: A Cultural Review.

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Caroline Grigson's The Life Poems of Anne Hunter; Haydn's Tuneful Voice is a careful reconstruction of the life of a female poet who crossed over intectual culture and the arts at the end of the eighteenth century. The sometime lyricist for Joseph Haydn, Hunter was an intimate of the Bluestockings (Elizabeth Carter especially), the aunt of Joanna Baillie, and a full-time poet. Grigson's Life and Poems is part critical biography and part edition, and in both respects the first of its kind. Sixty of Hunter's two hundred or so poems were published anonymously in an 1802 collection, others had appeared in anthologies, music books, or broadsides, and many lay unpublished in manuscripts. Grigson has brought these together and printed them along with a seventy-odd page biography. A great deal of sleuthing and hunting went into putting together the verse. While I might have liked fuller annotation or a record of variants - textual notes are quite slim and line numbers nonexistent - this nevertheless is a fine act of recovery and assembling. The scholarly project of the Seward and Hunter books hovers around literary biography, edition, and the presentation of life writing. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 50.3 A fine act of recovery and assembling. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 50.3 In collecting Anne Hunter's verse, scattered through anthologies and archives, Caroline Grigson has taken a significant step towards restoring the reputation of this unfairly neglected poet. TLS Caroline Grigson's The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter: Haydn's Tuneful Voice restores to view the oeuvre of Anne Home Hunter, best known as the author of lyrics for song settings by Joseph Haydn. The volume reveals a substantial poet, developing ballad and lyric traditions in innovative ways; in addition to reprinting her Poems (1802) it collects works from other printed sources and from manuscripts. Julie Sheldon's edition of the Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake draws most of its contents from the John Murray archive, recently acquired by the National Library of Scotland, to bring to light an important figure in Victorian artistic and literary circles, hitherto hard to discern because she did not write for publication. Her correspondence with Murray and Austen Henry Layard dominates the collection, which also includes letters to Effie Gray (Ruskin) and Florence Nightingale. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, The Nineteenth Century Volume 50, Number 4

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