William McCarthy

Standard Name: McCarthy, William

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
William Enfield quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy . Her volume...
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
The young Samuel Rogers sent enthusiastic praise; he said he found ALB 's style easily recognisable. The Monthly Review and Analytical Review were equally laudatory, while, predictably, conservative voices expressed disgust. A country clergyman sent...
Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
Recently William McCarthy has pronounced this poem seldom matched for conceptual density. (He cites as its peers in this respect Johnson 's The Vanity of Human Wishes and Ann Yearsley 's Addressed to Ignorance.)
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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Literary responses Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge , though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the...
Literary responses Hester Lynch Piozzi
HLP persistently denigrated herself as a poet, probably for reasons of gender, calling her verses trifling, nonsense, or trash. Thraliana remains the nearest thing to a collected edition of her poetry, but by the time...
names Anna Letitia Barbauld
  • BirthName: Anna Letitia Aikin
    McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
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    She spelled her name both Laetitia and Letitia (when she did not confine herself to initials). Her biographer William McCarthy says he uses Letitia largely for its more appealing appearance...
Textual Features Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB grounds her specific political aims in general principles about the nature of patriotism and the moral individual's relation to that entity called our country. To her the idea which most nations have entertained, that...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
A recently-discovered later manuscript adds 80 lines to the form of this poem (which William McCarthy calls touching though metrically immature) that was known from its original printing.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
It is reproduced in William McCarthy 's biography.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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Texts

Barbauld, Anna Letitia. Anna Letitia Barbauld : Selected Poetry and Prose. Editors McCarthy, William and Elizabeth Kraft, Broadview, 2001.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
McCarthy, William. Email to Isobel Grundy about blue plaque.
McCarthy, William. Hester Thrale Piozzi: Portrait of a Literary Woman. University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi.
McCarthy, William. “The Celebrated Academy at Palgrave: A Documentary History of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s School”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
8
, 1997, pp. 279-92.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Editors McCarthy, William and Elizabeth Kraft, University of Georgia Press, 1994.
McCarthy, William. “What Did Anna Barbauld Do to Richardson’s Correspondence? A Study of Her Editing”. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Vol.
54
, 2001, pp. 191-23.
McCarthy, William. “Why Anna Letitia Barbauld Refused to Head a Women’s College: New Facts, New Story”. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol.
23
, No. 3, 2001, pp. 349-79.