Hemans, Felicia

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, [March 1820]

Give me leave to recommend to You a little Poem called ‘the Sceptic’.^* It is written by a young Woman who is living in great Obscurity and almost poverty in Wales. She wrote two Years ago a Poem ‘on the Restoration of the fine Arts to Italy’,^* a little work of great merit, but which I fear never made its way. It abounds in fine taste, elegant diction and great harmony of numbers. She is married to a poor Officer:^* The ‘Sceptic’ is less splendid; but is not only extremely well written, but in a fine Spirit of piety It is too much to hope that dear will be a Bishop What an Archbishop of Them [unclear]! God send more such!

To Lady Olivia Sparrow, [March 1820]

The Sceptic, by Felicia Hemans (London: John Murray, 1820). (Read online.)