There she electrified a social gathering at the house of Dugald Stewart
by her reading of William Taylor
's still unpublished translation of Bürger
's highly emotional Lenore.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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March 1796
William Taylor
published in the Monthly Magazine his translation or adaptation of Gottfried August Bürger
's German ghost-storyballadLenore.
