This author addressed a "pure spirit" whose "sea is calm, the tempest past" in a poem set in some "deep impenetrable gloom," near the "secrets of the skies."
This author addressed a "pure spirit" whose "sea is calm, the tempest past" in a poem set in some "deep impenetrable gloom," near the "secrets of the skies." A description of this author's verse as "floating bubbles" and a "silken bubble" that "rides buoyant through the clouds" closes a poem that opens by comparing the Muses to "gossips." As a critic, this author wrote a 50-volume study called The British Novelists, and wrote Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, a poem criticizing the Napoleonic wars. This author of many Lessons for Children wrote the poem "Dirge" after Rochemont, her husband, attacked her and then committed suicide. Her poem "Washing Day" describe the mundaneness of making breakfast and cleaning clothes and often appears in Romanticism anthologies. For 10 points, name this female poet whose good friends sometimes called her "Anna Letitia."
This author addressed a "pure spirit" whose "sea is calm, the tempest past" in a poem set in some "deep impenetrable gloom," near the "secrets of the skies."
Anna Letitia Barbauld