The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851
Auteur : Joanna Baillie
Date de publication : 1999
Éditeur : Manchester University Press
Nombre de pages : 206
Résumé du livre
This is a comprehensive selection of Joanna Baillie's major lyric poetry. Her poetry ranged from songs and lyrical ballads to dramatic monologues and realistic blank verse poems relating to her youth in the Scottish countryside, as well as her life in London. Jennifer Breen places Baillie's best poetry where it belongs - in the Romantic canon, demonstrably the equal of and the formative link between Robert Burns' Scottish poetry and William Wordsworth's meditations on Nature. This edition of Baillie's work gives readers the opportunity to assess her significance and her craft.