Selected poetry and prose / Anna Letitia Barbauld ; edited by William McCarthy & Elizabeth Kraft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825.

Contributor:

Kraft, Elizabeth.

McCarthy, William, 1942-

Series:

Broadview literary texts

Language:

English

Physical Description:

519 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Selected poetry & prose

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY : Broadview Press, [2002]

Contents:

An Address to the Deity 41

To Mrs. P[riestley], with some Drawings of Birds and Insects 44

The Invitation: To Miss B***** 49

To Dr. Aikin on his Complaining that she neglected him, October 20th 1768 55

Corsica 59

On the Death of Mrs. Jennings 66

On the Backwardness of the Spring 1771 68

The Mouse's Petition 69

An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study 73

Song I 75

Song V 77

To Wisdom 79

Hymn II 80

Hymn V 82

The Groans of the Tankard 83

Verses written in an Alcove 87

Hymn to Content 89

Ode to Spring 92

To a Lady, with some painted Flowers 94

Verses on Mrs. Rowe 96

A Summer Evening's Meditation 98

Hymn VI 102

To Mr. Barbauld, November 14, 1778 103

Love and Time 105

Lines to be spoken by Thomas Denman, on the Christmas before his Birthday, when he was four Years old 108

Written on a Marble 109

A School Eclogue 110

Autumn: A Fragment 115

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

Epistle to Dr. Enfield, on his Revisiting Warrington in 1789 118

Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade 121

The Apology of the Bishops, in Answer to "Bonner's Ghost" 127

The Rights of Woman 130

Hymn VII 132

To a Great Nation 133

To Dr. Priestley. Dec. 29, 1792 135

Hymn: "Ye are the salt of the earth" 136

To the Poor 139

Inscription for an Ice-House 140

To Mr. S. T. Coleridge 142

Washing-Day 143

To a Little Invisible Being who is expected soon to become Visible 147

On the Death of Mrs. Martineau 149

[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

West End Fair 152

The Pilgrim 154

Dirge: Written November 1808 156

On the King's Illness 158

Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, a Poem 160

Life 174

A Thought on Death 175

The First Fire 176

The Caterpillar 179

On the Death of the Princes Charlotte 181

The Baby-House 183

Lines written at the Close of the Year 185

Against Inconsistency in our Expectations 186

An Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which Excite agreeable Sensations 195

Thoughts on the Devotional Taste, on Sects, and on Establishments 209

Hymns in Prose for Children 234

An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts 261

Fashion, a Vision 282

Pieces from Evenings at Home 290

The Young Mouse. A Fable 290

Things by their Right Names 291

The Four Sisters 293

Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation; or, a Discourse for the Fast, Appointed on April 19, 1793 297

What Is Education? 321

On Prejudice 333

Thoughts on the Inequality of Conditions 345

Letter from Grimalkin to Selima 356

From "Life of Samuel Richardson, with Remarks on his Writings" 360

From The British Novelists 375

On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing 377

From Fielding 417

Johnson 425

Mrs. Inchbald 432

Mrs. Charlotte Smith 436

Miss Burney 442

Mrs. Radcliffe 450

[Letter to the Gentleman's Magazine in Defense of Maria Edgeworth's Tale, "The Dun"] 456

Dialogue in the Shades 463

On Female Studies 474.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references: pages 505-519.

ISBN:

1551112418 :

OCLC:

45300384