Can Female Speak? Anna Laetitia Barbauld, a Legacy for Women Poets

Fariba Farhangi

doi:10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.11.2

Abstract

In Romanticism the poet was considered as a prophet, an unknown illustrative speaking for the whole of humanity; however, woman poets were marginalized. The existent study accompaniments implication as the consequences can shade sunnier on why women poets as vigorous and operative supporters of Romanticism period futile to overcome their defensible place among the main poets of the time in spitefulness of their positive community planetary. Females wanted to be documented and acknowledged as human beings in general and poets indefinite. By providing a thorough investigation of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, this study has explored how she possesses her faultless feminine image while she trails a profession outside of the domestic domain. Anna Laetitia Barbauld transfers the absorbing visionary image of a new woman and competes with the male-oriented concept that women could not and should not engage in poetry writing.

Highlights

Romanticism, women status, women poets, silence In Romanticism the poet was considered as a prophet, an unknown illustrative speaking for the whole of humanity; woman poets were marginalized
By providing a thorough investigation of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, this study has explored how she possesses her faultless feminine image while she trails a profession outside of the domestic domain
In the period of Romanticism, in which the poet has deliberated a Prophet who was an anonymous political figure talking for the whole of humanity, women poets such as Anna Laetitia Barbauld were enforced to defend their situation as a poet on the usage of the equal language Wordsworth used

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Introduction

In Romanticism the poet was considered as a prophet, an unknown illustrative speaking for the whole of humanity; woman poets were marginalized. The woman poet of the romantic era, toiling away in obscurity, fearful of putting her name before the public of being seen and recognized as a writer, publishing book after book anonymously or under the veil of “by a lady, or using some other subterfuge to keep her true identity secret. This woman poet, this familiar portrait, is a fiction—as much a myth, it seems, as the notion of poetry coming as spontaneously and “as naturally as the leaves to a tree. At the opinion when a female depicted out a book of verse anonymously, it was frequently her first book, and her name presented up quickly on the cover pieces of resulting reliefs and later volumes

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