Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose (Broadview Literary Texts) (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551112418 ISBN 13: 9781551112411

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"As a poet, essayist, editor, and teacher, Anna Letitia Barbauld attained a position of eminence in her own time, distinguishing herself in a tradition of Dissenting writers, such as Priestley, Wollstonecraft, and Coleridge. McCarthy and Kraft's fascinating historical introduction and notes place Barbauld's life and work in the context of middle-class, Dissenting culture, noting her complex, and often misunderstood, positions on womanhood, Presbyterianism, and politics. Her poems are now regarded as landmarks in the dawn of English Romanticism, and the editors of this edition offer a generous selection of Barbauld's widely admired prose writings, many of which have not been reprinted until now. Here as poet and essayist Barbauld's rhetorical powers and commitment to justice, ingenuousness, tolerance, and imagination, to borrow her own phrase, 'shine out.' The volume is indispensable." -- Michele Martinez, Trinity College, Connecticut

"McCarthy and Kraft are the pre-eminent authorities on Barbauld. Extraordinarily well-researched and readable, this is a superb edition of works by one of the finest and most influential writers of the Romantic era." -- Paula Feldman, University of South Carolina

From the Publisher:

The Broadview Editions series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, lesser-known literature. Newly type-set and produced on high-quality paper in trade paperback format, the Broadview Editions series is a delight to handle as well as to read.

Each volume includes a full introduction, chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes along with a variety of documents from the period, giving readers a rich sense of the world from which the work emerged.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1551112418
• ISBN 13: 9781551112411
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 519
• Editor: William McCarthy, Elizabeth Kraft