Anna Letitia Barbauld

by Barbauld, Anna Letitia; McCarthy, William; Kraft, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9781551112411
• ISBN10: 1551112418
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

At 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.

Author Biography

William McCarthy, Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University, is the author of Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman (1985) Elizabeth Kraft, of the University of Georgia, is the author of Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction (1992) and Laurence Sterne Revisited (1996). They co-edited The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld (1994)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(11)
Introduction	11	(22)
Anna Letitia Barbauld: A Brief Chronology	33	(4)
Abbreviations of Titles Cited in the Notes	37	(1)
A Note on the Text	38	(3)
An Address to the Diety	41	(3)
To Mrs. P[riestley], with some Drawings of Birds and Insects	44	(5)
The Invitation: To Miss B*****	49	(6)
To Dr. Aikin on his Complaining that she neglected him, October 20th 1768	55	(4)
Corsica	59	(7)
On the Death of Mrs. Jennings	66	(2)
On the Backwardness of the Spring 1771	68	(1)
The Mouse's Petition	69	(4)
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study	73	(2)
Song I	75	(2)
Song V	77	(2)
To Wisdom	79	(1)
Hymn II	80	(2)
Hymn V	82	(1)
The Groans of the Tankard	83	(4)
Verses written in an Alcove	87	(2)
Hymn to Content	89	(3)
Ode to Spring	92	(2)
To a Lady, with some painted Flowers	94	(2)
Verses on Mrs. Rowe	96	(2)
A Summer Evening's Meditation	98	(4)
Hymn VI	102	(1)
To Mr. Barbauld, November 14, 1778	103	(2)
Love and Time	105	(3)
Lines to be spoken by Thomas Denman, on the Christmas before his Birthday, when he was four Years old	108	(1)
Written on a Marble	109	(1)
A School Eclogue	110	(5)
Autumn: A Fragment	115	(1)
To the Baron de Stonne, who had wished at the next Transit of Mercury to find Himself again between Mrs. Laborde and Mrs. B[arbauld]	116	(2)
Epistle to Dr. Enfield, on his Revisiting Warrington in 1789	118	(3)
Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade	121	(6)
The Apology of the Bishops, in Answer to ``Bonner's Ghost''	127	(3)
The Rights of Woman	130	(2)
Hymn VII	132	(1)
To a Great Nation	133	(2)
To Dr. Priestley. Dec. 29, 1792	135	(1)
Hymn: ``Ye are the salt of the earth''	136	(3)
To the Poor	139	(1)
Inscription for an Ice-House	140	(2)
To Mr. S. T. Coleridge	142	(1)
Washing-Day	143	(4)
To a Little Invisible Being who is expected soon to become Visible	147	(2)
On the Death of Mrs. Martineau	149	(1)
[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 open Books]	150	(2)
West End Fair	152	(2)
The Pilgrim	154	(2)
Dirge: Written November 1808	156	(2)
On the King's Illness	158	(2)
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, a Poem	160	(14)
Life	174	(1)
A Thought on Death	175	(1)
The First Fire	176	(3)
The Caterpillar	179	(2)
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte	181	(2)
The Baby-House	183	(2)
Lines written at the Close of the Year	185	(1)
Against Inconsistency in our Expectations	186	(9)
An Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which Excite agreeable Sensations	195	(14)
Thoughts on the Devotional Taste, on Sects, and on Establishments	209	(25)
Hymns in Prose for Children	234	(27)
An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts	261	(21)
Fashion, a Vision	282	(8)
Pieces from Evenings at Home	290	(7)
The Young Mouse. A Fable	290	(1)
Things by their Right Names	291	(2)
The Four Sisters	293	(4)
Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation; or, a Discourse for the Fast, Appointed on April 19, 1793	297	(24)
What Is Education?	321	(12)
On Prejudice	333	(12)
Thoughts on the Inequality of Conditions	345	(11)
Letter from Grimalkin to Selima	356	(4)
From ``Life of Samuel Richardson, with Remarks on his Writings''	360	(15)
From The British Novelists	375	(81)
On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing	377	(40)
From Fielding	417	(8)
Johnson	425	(7)
Mrs. Inchbald	432	(4)
Mrs. Charlotte Smith	436	(6)
Miss Burney	442	(8)
Mrs. Radcliffe	450	(6)
[Letter to the Gentleman's Magazine in Defense of Maria Edgeworth's Tale, ``The Dun'']	456	(7)
Dialogue in the Shades	463	(11)
On Female Studies	474	(9)
Appendix A: From Elizabeth Carter, All the Works of Epictetus	483	(3)
Appendix B: The Debate on Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 1787-1790	486	(9)
Appendix C: The Royal Proclamation of a Fast in April 1793	495	(2)
Appendix D: The British Novelists: Predecessors, Contents, Allusions	497	(8)
Sources of the Texts	505	(2)
Bibliography	507