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

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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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About the Author

William McCarthy is the author of Hester Thrale Piozzo: Portrait of a Literary Woman (1985).

Elizabeth Kraft is the author of (1992) and Laurence Sterne Revisited (1996). They co-edited The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld (1994) for the University of Georgia Press.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551112418
• ISBN 13: 9781551112411
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 522