Full Description
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. The introduction sets her lyric poems in in their Scottish context as well as linking her work with the Romantic period (1785-1832) generally.
Contents
A winter day; a summer day; a reverie; a disappointment; a lamentation; an address to the muses; the storm-beat maid; an address to the night - a fearful mind; an address to the night - a discontented mind; an address to the night - a sorrowful mind; an address to the night - a joyful mind; to fear; a mother to her waking infant; a child to his sick grandfather; the kitten; song written for a Welsh air - "O welcome bat and owlet grey"; the black cock.
