Poems By Anna Laetitia Barbauld: To Which Is Added, En Epistle To William Wilberforce

by Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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Genres: Classics

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1820

About the author

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, née Aikin; was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and children's author.

Reviews

[Eilidh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Epistle to William Wilberforce is great. Moved me and that doesn't usually happen with this type of poetry. An important rabbit hole to fall down.

[Benevbooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

For uni

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anna Lætitia Barbauld was an important poet of her time who moved in the same circles as many of the English Romantic era's best-known and most-talented poets, yet she is sadly seldom-read today. Her poem "A Mouse's Petition" is probably her best-known work, and the following lines from that poem illustrates the beauty and power of her pen:

"Beware, lest in the worm you crush
A brother's soul you find ;
And tremble lest thy luckless hand
Dislodge a kindred mind."

This book is therefore very useful in getting a good overview of Barbauld's poetry though it's a reprint of works from her own time and therefore doesn't include any contemporary critical essays or introduction to help position her work in a larger arena, which would be helpful, but it's a good enough place to start and her writing clearly speaks for itself.