Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and ProseAt her death in 1825, Anna Letitia Barbauld was considered one of the great writers of her time. Distinguished as a poet and essayist, she was also in innovator in children’s literature, an eloquent supporter of liberal politics, and a literary critic of stature. This edition includes a generous selection of her poetry and the first comprehensive body of her prose in more than a century, with essays—some never before reprinted—on literature, religion, education, prejudice, women’s fashions, and class conflict. |
Contents
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A Brief Chronology | 33 |
Abbreviations of Titles Cited in the Notes | 37 |
A Note on the Text | 38 |
An Address to the Deity | 41 |
To Mrs Priestley with some Drawings of Birds and Insects | 44 |
To Miss B | 49 |
Inscription for an IceHouse | 140 |
To Mr S T Coleridge | 142 |
WashingDay | 143 |
To a Little Invisible Being who is expected soon to become Visible | 147 |
On the Death of Mrs Martineau | 149 |
Lines for Anne Wakefield on her Wedding to Charles Rochemont Aikin with a Pair of Chimney Ornaments in the Figures of two Females seated with... | 150 |
West End Fair | 152 |
The Pilgrim | 154 |
To Dr Aikin on his Complaining that she neglected him October 20th 1768 | 55 |
Corsica | 59 |
On the Death of Mrs Jennings | 66 |
On the Backwardness of the Spring 1771 | 68 |
The Mouses Petition | 69 |
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr Priestleys Study | 73 |
Song I | 75 |
Song V | 77 |
To Wisdom | 79 |
Hymn II | 80 |
Hymn V | 82 |
The Groans of the Tankard | 83 |
Verses written in an Alcove | 87 |
Hymn to Content | 89 |
Ode to Spring | 92 |
To a Lady with some painted Flowers | 94 |
Verses on Mrs Rowe | 96 |
A Summer Evenings Meditation | 98 |
Hymn VI | 102 |
To Mr Barbauld November 141778 | 103 |
Love and Time | 105 |
Lines to be spoken by Thomas Denman on the Christmas before his Birthday when he was four Years old | 108 |
Written on a Marble | 109 |
A School Eclogue | 110 |
A Fragment | 115 |
To the Baron de Stonne who had wished at the next Transit of Mercury to find Himself again between Mrs Laborde and Mrs Barbauld | 116 |
Epistle to Dr Enfield on his Revisiting Warrington in 1789 | 118 |
Epistle to William Wilberforce Esq on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade | 121 |
The Apology of the Bishops in Answer to Bonners Ghost | 127 |
The Rights of Woman | 130 |
Hymn VII | 132 |
To a Great Nation | 133 |
To Dr Priestley Dec 29 1792 | 135 |
Ye are the salt of the earth | 136 |
To the Poor | 139 |
Written November 1808 | 156 |
On the Kings Illness | 158 |
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven a Poem | 160 |
Life | 174 |
A Thought on Death | 175 |
The First Fire | 176 |
The Caterpillar | 179 |
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte | 181 |
The BabyHouse | 183 |
Lines written at the Close of the Year | 185 |
Against Inconsistency in our Expectations | 186 |
An Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which Excite agreeable Sensations | 195 |
Thoughts on the Devotional Taste on Sects and on Establishments | 209 |
Hymns in Prose for Children | 234 |
An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts | 261 |
Fashion a Vision | 282 |
Pieces from Evenings at Home | 290 |
Sins of Government Sins of the Nation or a Discourse for the Fast Appointed on April 191793 | 297 |
What Is Education? | 321 |
On Prejudice | 333 |
Thoughts on the Inequality of Conditions | 345 |
Letter from Grimalkin to Selima | 356 |
From Life of Samuel Richardson with Remarks on his Writings | 360 |
From The British Novelists | 375 |
Letter to the Gentlemans Magazine in Defense of Maria Edgeworths Tale The Dun | 456 |
Dialogue in the Shades | 463 |
On Female Studies | 474 |
From Elizabeth Carter All the Works of Epictetus | 483 |
The Debate on Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts 17871790 | 486 |
The Royal Proclamation of a Fast in April 1793 | 495 |
The British Novelists Predecessors Contents Allusions | 497 |
Sources of the Texts | 505 |
Bibliography | 507 |
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