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's still unpublished translation of Bürger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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Literary responses
Mary Hays
This time most reviews were respectful: the Analytical of course, the Monthly (in which William Taylor
noted that the novel was a cut above the common run, with serious and unusual moral teaching to impart)...
Literary responses
Anna Swanwick
The Athenæum welcomed this translation enthusiastically, proclaiming that it is seldom that we meet with a translator so competent,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
990 (1846): 1062
and praising Swanwick for elegant and vigorous English verse.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
990 (1846): 1062
It...
Timeline
March 1796: William Taylor published in the Monthly Magazine...
Writing climate item
March 1796
William Taylor
published in the Monthly Magazine his translation or adaptation of Gottfried August Bürger
's German ghost-story ballad Lenore.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Taylor, William (1765-1836)
1797: William Taylor wrote the first recorded instance...
National or international item
1797
William Taylor
wrote the first recorded instance of the word autobiography (in a Monthly Review notice of Isaac D'Israeli
's Miscellanies).
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.