Product Details Paperback 519 pages Broadview Press Published 2002 Paula Feldman, University of South Carolina "this is a superb edition of works by one of the finest and most influential writers of the Romantic era." Michele Martinez, Trinity College, Connecticut The volume is indispensable." Book Description 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. |