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
A Brief Chronology | |
A Note on the Text | |
To Mrs Priestley with some Drawings of Birds and Insects | |
To Miss B | |
To Dr Aikin on his Complaining that she neglected him | |
On the Death of Mrs Jennings | |
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr Priestleys Study | |
To a Little Invisible Being who is expected soon to become | |
West End Fair | |
On the Kings Illness | |
A Thought on Death | |
The Caterpillar | |
The BabyHouse | |
An Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which Excite | |
Thoughts on the Devotional Taste on Sects and | |
Song V | |
Hymn V | |
Verses written in an Alcove | |
Ode to Spring | |
Verses on Mrs Rowe | |
Hymn VI | |
Love and Time | |
Written on a Marble | |
A Fragment | |
Epistle to William Wilberforce Esq on the Rejection of | |
The Apology of the Bishops in Answer to Bonners Ghost | |
Hymn VII | |
Ye are the salt of the earth | |
Inscription for an IceHouse | |
Hymns in Prose for Children | |
Fashion a Vision | |
Sins of Government Sins of the Nation or a Discourse | |
What Is Education? | |
Thoughts on the Inequality of Conditions | |
From Life of Samuel Richardson with Remarks on | |
From The British Novelists | |
Johnson | |
Letter to the Gentlemans Magazine in Defense of Maria | |
On Female Studies | |
The Debate on Repeal of the Test | |
Sources of the Texts | |
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