Poems
Creator
Date
1791
Identifier
de Beer Eb 1791 A
Type
Publisher
London: Printed for J. Johnson
Abstract
Physician and poet John Aikin (1747-1822) keenly supported the authorial career of his older sister, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. ‘By his persuasion and assistance,’ wrote John’s daughter Lucy Aikin, ‘her Poems were selected, revised, and arranged for publication […] The result more than justified his confidence of her success’. In John’s poem ‘To Mrs Barbauld at Geneva’, the speaker calls on nature to awaken the Muse within ‘my sister and my friend’ and to ‘[p]our thy soft influence through Laetitia’s breast’.
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Citation
John Aikin, “Poems,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 9, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/10174.