Anna Letitia Barbauld

Author : William McCarthy
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801890160
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Letitia Barbauld written by William McCarthy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2011 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Against the background of the American and French revolutions, the Napoleonic Wars, and the struggle for religious equality in Great Britain, a brilliant, embattled woman strove to defend Enlightenment values to her nation. Poet, teacher, essayist, political writer, editor, and critic, Anna Letitia Barbauld was venerated by contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic, among them the young Walter Scott, the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Boston Unitarians such as William Ellery Channing. After decades in the historical limbo into which almost all work by women writers of her era was swept, Barbauld's writings on citizenly ethics, identity politics, church-state relations, and empire are still deeply relevant today. Inquiring and witty as well as principled and passionate, Barbauld was a voice for the Enlightenment in an age of revolution and reaction. Based on more than fifteen years of research in dozens of libraries and archives across five countries, this is the first full-length biography of one of the foremost women writers in Georgian England. "A superb biography that brings a radical literary figure back into the picture . . . a thrilling, brilliant book."—Guardian "McCarthy establishes Barbauld as a figure of major significance. His magnificent biography will draw many others to her, and give her a new and deserved prominence in Enlightenment and Romantic studies."—Women's Writing "A tour de force . . . Honest, wise, original."—Eighteenth-Century Studies William McCarthy is professor emeritus of English at Iowa State University. He is the coeditor of The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld and the author of Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman.

Author : Daniel P. Watkins
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421406616
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Letitia Barbauld and Eighteenth-Century Visionary Poetics written by Daniel P. Watkins and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first critical study of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s major work, Daniel P. Watkins reveals the singular purpose of Barbauld’s visionary poems: to recreate the world based on the values of liberty and justice. Watkins examines in close detail both the form and content of Barbauld’s Poems, originally published in 1773 and revised and reissued in 1792. Along with careful readings of the poems that situate the works in their broader political, historical, and philosophical contexts, Watkins explores the relevance of the introductory epigraphs and the importance of the poems’ placement throughout the volume. Centering his study on Barbauld’s effort to develop a visionary poetic stance, Watkins argues that the deliberate arrangement of the poems creates a coherent portrayal of Barbauld’s poetic, political, and social vision, a far-sighted sagacity born of her deep belief that the principles of love, sympathy, liberty, and pacifism are necessary for a secure and meaningful human reality. In tracing the contours of this effort, Watkins examines, in particular, the tension in Barbauld’s poetry between her desire to engage directly with the political realities of the world and her equally strong longing for a pastoral world of peace and prosperity. Scholars of British literature and women writers will welcome this important study of one of the eighteenth century’s foremost writers.

Author : Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia)
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820315287
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld written by Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together for the first time all the known poems of English writer Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825), a once esteemed but long neglected figure whose career spanned the Age of Sensibility and the Romantic Era. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft have collected 170 of her poems, including twenty-three previously unpublished and eleven conjectural attributions. This is the first scholarly edition of any writings of Barbauld, a brilliant woman whose interests ranged from literary criticism to history and affairs of state to children’s stories. At the end of the eighteenth century, Barbauld may well have been the most eminent living poet, male or female, in Britain. Barbauld belongs almost equally to two generations. Her verse displays an eighteenth-century adherence to balance, common sense, and poetic diction and meter, but it also celebrates the individual, the passionate, and the fanciful in a clearly Romantic manner. In the current reconfiguring of Romanticism, Barbauld provides an important contrast to the major male poets who have, until recently, defined the era--poets who clearly acknowledged her influence on their own work, yet who played a role in Barbauld’s lapse into obscurity in the century after her death. Coleridge, before a serious falling out with Barbauld, admired her greatly, and Wordsworth confessed that he wished the final eight lines of her poem “Life” had been of his own composing. Walter Savage Landor ranked her “Summer Evening’s Meditation” among the finest poems in the English language. Barbauld’s poems have retained their capacity to delight readers; they are witty, learned, imaginative, and unpredictable in both choice and treatment of subject. Read as a whole, this collection reveals a striking variety of style and voice and provides the basis for a major--and long overdue--reevaluation of Barbauld’s poetry. McCarthy and Kraft present unmodernized texts of the poems that reflect as nearly as possible the author’s final intention and give variant readings in textual notes. A lengthy introduction includes a discussion of the poems, a history of their composition and publication, and an outline of Barbauld’s life and writing career.

Author : Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia)
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Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld written by Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
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Download or read book Lessons for Children written by Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William McCarthy
Publisher : Collected Works of Anna Letiti
ISBN 13 : 9780198704348
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld written by William McCarthy and published by Collected Works of Anna Letiti. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld presents, for the first time, all the known surviving works of this major English writer, who lived from 1743 to 1825. Poet, essayist, editor, innovative writer for children, polemicist for religious and political reform, Barbauld helped set the agenda for Anglo-American culture for over a century. Her poems influenced Coleridge and Wordsworth; her writings on education, church-state relations, identity politics, and the ethics of citizenship are freshly relevant today; her commentary on books and writers went far to establish today's canon of English novelists. Beyond their importance, her writings are distinguished by great charm and profound intelligence. Volume I presents all of Anna Letitia Barbauld's known poems, drawing on manuscript and printed sources that were not known in 1994, when the last standard edition of Barbauld's poems was published. William McCarthy's critical edition adds new poems to Barbauld's canon, and removes several found to be doubtful. It takes into account the surprising number of early American texts. It revisits the question of copy-texts and makes different choices of them. It re-dates several poems and corrects and supplements annotations. It notices reprints, which played a major role in creating Barbauld's after-image on both shores of the Atlantic. The Poems, Revised, is the new standard edition today, indispensable for all students of Barbauld's work.

Author : Anna Letitia Barbauld
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld written by Anna Letitia Barbauld and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
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Download or read book The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld written by Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1. Memoir. Poems -- v. 2. Correspondence. Miscellaneous pieces.

Author : Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia)
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Hymns in Prose for Children written by Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia)
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Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld. With a Memoir by Lucy Aikin written by Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: