following year. The conservative magazine British Critic suggests that her poems show no depth of thought, but have a natural feeling and simplicity of expression, which make many of them worth reading. Haydn set a number of her songs to music, including "My Mother bids me bind my Hair," originally written to an air of Pleyel's. Her relationship with Haydn is ambiguous, though at the time of his visit she was a widow. Songs by Haydn on her texts include The Mermaid's Song, Fidelity, Pleasing Pain, and The Spirit's Song and a libretto for The Creation, which was based on John Milton's Paradise Lost. References External links Anne Hunter at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) Anne Hunter: Poet, Songwriter, Wife Poems. Hunter, Anne Home (Mrs. John), 1742-1821 1742 births 1821 deaths 18th-century Scottish poets 19th-century Scottish poets People from Berwickshire Scottish women poets 19th-century British women writers 19th-century British writers 18th-century British women writers