Revolution and Romanticism

SUSANNA BLAMIRE

Poetical Works 1842

Susanna Blamire, ‘the Muse of Cumberland’, died in 1794, having written a great deal and published nothing. For almost the next fifty years she was known only for her wonderful songs, some in the Cumbrian dialect, many in the Scottish tradition. The present volume then appeared, its contents gathered together by two devotees, chiefly from MSS within the family. Without their painstaking research her work would most probably have vanished. We should have lost a writer with a spontaneous lyrical gift whose songs vie with those of Burns and Hogg, and a poet with a remarkable eye for detail, writing out of the immediate circumstances of her life at the beginning of the Romantic period.

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If I hae been a week away,
My Jenny rins to meet me;
Wi’ aw the chat o’ this bit pleace
My Jenny’s fain to treat me -
‘There’s Rob has married Mary Gray,
And Bella’s past aw telling!
And Greace has fun the little cat,
And Dick can say his spellin...’
(From ‘The Meeting’)

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