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Individual Item Contents: WPRP 142

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Author

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

Title

The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld. With a memoir by Lucy Aikin. 2 vol.

Imprint

New York : G. & C. Carvill, etc., 1826.

Physical description

2 v. ; 19 cm

Citation

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 18.

Call number

WPRP 142.

Notes

Includes Advertisement.

Epigraph

Bright-eyed Fancy hovering o’er
Scatters from her pictured urn
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

Online copies

Volume I, Hathi Trust

Volume II, Hathi Trust

Contents

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

MEMOIR	13

POEMS.

The Invitation. To Miss B*****	51
The Groans of the Tankard	58
On the Backwardness of the Spring 1771	62
Verses written in an Alcove	64
The Mouse’s Petition	67
To Mrs. P********, with some drawings of birds and insects	70
Characters	75
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley’s Study	79
On the Deserted Village	82
Hymn to Content	83
To Wisdom	86
Songs	88
Ovid to his Wife	94
To a Lady, with some painted flowers	98
Ode to Spring	99
Epithalamium	102
To a Dog	104
To Miss R*****, on her attendance upon her mother at Buxton	105
On the Death of Mrs. Jennings	107
An Address to the Deity	109
A Summer Evening’s Meditation	112
The Epiphany	117
To Mr. Barbauld	121
Tomorrow	123
Lines placed over a Chimney-piece	124
What do the Futures speak of?--in answer to a question in the Greek grammar	125
Autumn. A fragment	127
To the Baron De Stonne, who had wished at the next transit of Mercury to find himself again between Mrs. La Borde and Mrs. B	129
Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for abolishing the Slave Trade, 1791	132
To Dr. Priestley	137
The Rights of Woman	138
Inscription for an Ice-house	140
An Autumnal Thought	142
To the Poor	144
Hymn	145
Washing-day	148
Verses inscribed on a pair of Screens	152
Peace and Shephard	153
On the death or [sic] Mrs. Martineau, senior	155
On a Portrait	157
Dirge	158
The Unknown God	160
Eternity	162
Ode to Remorse	163
Life	169
On the King’s Illness, 1811	171
A Thought on Death	173
Stanzas,--in the manner of Spenser	174
The First Fire	176
The Caterpillar	179
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte	181
The Wake of the King of Spain	183
The Baby-house	185
Lines written in a young Lady’s Album of different-coloured paper	187
To a Friend	188
Dejection	189
To Mr. Bowring, on his poetical translations from various languages	191
Fragment	192
Octogenary Reflections	193
The Death of the Virtuous	194
Hymns	195
Sabbath Hymns	213

CORRESPONDENCE.

Letters to Dr. Aikin	217
Letters to Miss E. Belsham, afterwards Mrs. Kenrick	256
Letters to Miss Dixon, afterwards Mrs. Beecroft	266
Letters to Mrs. J. Taylor	291
Letters to Miss Taylor, now Mrs. Reeve	299
Letters to Mrs. Carr	301
Letters to Mrs. Smith	304
Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Estlin	307
Letters to Mrs. Fletcher	316
Letter to Miss F.	322
Letter to --------------	323

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

The Hill of Science: A Vision	11
On Romances: An Imitation	17
Against Inconsistency in our Expectation	21
On Monastic Institutions	31
An Inquiry into those Kinds of Distress which excite agreeable Sensations:--With a Tale	46
Thoughts on the Devotional Taste, and on Sects and Establishments	60
The CurÈ of the Banks of the Rhone	82
Zephyrus and Flora	88
On Evil: A Rhapsody	90
Dialogue between Madame Cosmogunia and a Philosophical Inquirer of the Eighteenth Century	95
Letter of John Bull	104
Letter on Watering-places	110
On Education	118
On Prejudice	131
Dialogue in the Shades	144
Knowledge and her Daughter: A Fable	154
Remarks on Mr. Gilbert Wakefield’s Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship	157

LEGACY FOR YOUNG LADIES.

True Magicians	207
A Lecture on the Use of Words	216
The Pine and the Olive: a Fable	219
On Riddles	221
Enigma	230
The King in his Castle	231
On Female Studies	235
The Rich and the Poor: a Dialogue	244
Description of a curious Animal lately found in the Wilds of Derbyshire	252
On the Classics	254
Letter of a Young King	267
Verses written in the Leaves of an Ivory Pocket-book, presented to master T*****	272
On Plants	274
On a Portrait of a Lady and Two Children	278
Earth	280
On the Uses of History:
Letter I	283
Letter II	288
Letter III	295
Letter IV	301
Fashion: a Vision	311
To Miss D****	319
On the Birth of a Friend’s eldest Son	320
Epitaph on a Goldfinch	322
The Morning Repast	324
Description of Two Sisters	325
A Character	327
Pic-nic	328
Letter from Grimalkin to Selima	332
Petition of a Schoolboy to his Father	337
The River and the Brook: a Fable	341
The Lament: a Ballad	342
Allegory on Sleep	344
To *******, occasioned by his Poem on the Sun	348
A Hymn	349
On Friendship	351
Confidence and Modesty: a Fable	356
The Death-bed	358
A Dialogue of the Dead between Helen, and Madame Maintenon	360
On Expense	367

Women Poets of the Romantic Period Individual Item Contents: WPRP 142

Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 142