ENGL 331 Lecture Notes - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mock-Heroic, Maria Edgeworth
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She was an accomplished poet who was well regarded in her day. Published first collection of poems when she was 30: a critical success. Called a genius and talent , monthly review (1773) She was very quickly established as excellent writer. She continued to write for next 50 years: reviews, pamphlets, critical essays, children s literature and pedagogical writing. Those works thought to have influenced blake s songs of. Her reputation suffered in the 1790s, when she starting writing her political tracts. In 1812, she published the poem eighteen hundred and eleven , which was critical of. There was public outcry about this poem: it was considered. The poem ultimately tarnished her reputation with contemporaries. Her reputation was also destroyed by other poets of her time. For unknown reasons, both men distanced themselves from her. Coleridge attacked her publically and disparaged her privately. Intellectual women are impudent, forward, unfeminine, and unhealthy in their minds , lamb.
