Barbauld Mrs (Anna Letitia) 1743-1825

The poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld by Barbauld ( Book )
2 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 452 libraries worldwide
"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 William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft have collected 171 of her poems, including twenty-four previously unpublished and eleven conjectural attributions.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."--BOOK JACKET.

Hymns in prose for children by Barbauld ( Book )
371 editions published between 1781 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 348 libraries worldwide
A collection of inspirational and moral tracts published for children at the end of the eighteenth century to encourage reading and strength of character.

Evenings at home, or, The juvenile budget opened consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces for the instruction and amusement of young persons by John Aikin ( Book )
96 editions published between 1793 and 1886 in English and held by 219 libraries worldwide
Includes fables, fairy tales, dialogues, dramas, poems, etc. divided into thirty "evenings," or chapters.

The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld with a memoir by Barbauld ( Book )
13 editions published between 1825 and 1996 in English and held by 216 libraries worldwide

Poems by Barbauld ( Book )
48 editions published between 1772 and 1993 in English and Undetermined and held by 214 libraries worldwide
Dedication signed: Anna Lætitia Aikin.

The correspondence of Samuel Richardson ... selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family, to which are prefixed, a biographical account of that author, and observations on his writings by Samuel Richardson ( Book )
5 editions published between 1804 and 1966 in English and held by 205 libraries worldwide

Selected poetry and prose by Barbauld ( Book )
8 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 198 libraries worldwide

The correspondence of Samuel Richardson, author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson ( Book )
3 editions published between 1804 and 1966 in English and held by 194 libraries worldwide

An address to the opposers of the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts by Barbauld ( Book )
20 editions published between 1789 and 1790 in English and held by 180 libraries worldwide

Lessons for children by Barbauld ( Book )
139 editions published between 1793 and 1878 in English and French and held by 174 libraries worldwide