Abstract
This article addresses the difficulties of poetic voice entailed in a “minor” poet's volume of poetry published by subscription in the early-Georgian period by examining Mary Barber's Poems on Several Occasions (1735). The necessarily deferential mode of a volume published by subscription affects the presentation of the poet's authority and identity. Mary Barber uses this deferential mode to construct a female poetic identity through indirection: the use of other voices, including “ghost writing” for others, the creation of satiric personae, quotation and the inclusion of others' writing in her volume. These techniques are problematic, for while they allow expression, they also undermine poetic authority. This is discussed in analyses of the prefatory matter as well as the poems in this volume.
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