Anna Letitia Barbauld and Eighteenth-Century Visionary Poetics Tom Martens appropriate knowledge for education and

appropriate knowledge for education and licensure

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Anna Letitia Barbauld and Eighteenth-Century Visionary Poetics Tom Martens appropriate knowledge for education andIn this first critical study of Anna Letitia Barbauld's major work, Daniel P. Watkins reveals the singular purpose of Barbauld's visionary poems: to recreate the world based on the values of liberty and justice. Watkins examines in close detail both the form and content of Barbauld's Poems, originally published in 1773 and revised and reissued in 1792. Along with providing careful readings of the poems, readings that situate the works in their broader