Barbauld and Baillie

Published: Nov. 29, 2010, 8:07 p.m.

b'Professional opportunities for female poets in the second half of the 18th century.\\xa0 ProtoRomanticism of Baillie and Barbauld.\\xa0 Question of description of human emotion.\\xa0 Baillie\'s interest in the passions.\\xa0 Comparison with and difference from Wordsworth.\\xa0 Barbauld\'s poem to Coleridge.\\xa0 Getting from Pope to Coleridge in two lines: "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" (Pope) to\\xa0 "Dreamy twilight of the vacant mind" (Barbauld, on Coleridge).\\xa0 Barbauld\'s and Baillie\'s progressivism.\\xa0 Their interest in vicarious experience, especially their protoWordsworthian interest in the young.\\xa0 Coleridge a youth too, to Barbauld.'