Baillie, Joanna (Vol. 151) - Jennifer Breen (essay date 1999)
Jennifer Breen (essay date 1999)
SOURCE: Breen, Jennifer. “Introduction.” In The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, pp. 1-25. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.
[In the following essay, Breen presents an overview of Baillie's achievements in poetry, offering readings of a range of her work in order to show that she is a poet of high stature.]
JOANNA BAILLIE'S AUTHORSHIP AND THE CANON OF ROMANTIC POETRY
My Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie gives readers a modern edition of Baillie's poems with notes which explain historical and other allusions. I have included most of the poems in her first volume, Poems (1790),1 which she published anonymously, and five of the six poems that she contributed to the anthology that she edited, A Collection of Poems (1823),2 as well as a number of poems from her Fugitive Verses (1840),3...
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