Allegorical romance in Spenserian stanzas · 1805 (privately printed); 1811

Psyche

or, The Legend of Love

by Mary Tighe

Mary Tighe's retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, from Apuleius, in six cantos of Spenserian stanzas.

Contents · 7 parts

• Dedicatory Sonnet, Addressed to My Mother14 lines
• Canto Iabout 630 lines
• Canto IIabout 490 lines
• Canto IIIabout 610 lines
• Canto IVabout 530 lines
• Canto Vabout 550 lines
• Canto VIabout 540 lines

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