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• Title: Barbauld's Hymns in Prose for Children: Christian Romanticism and Instruction As Worship (Anna Letitia Barbauld) (Critical Essay)
• Author : Peggy Dunn Bailey
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,Religion & Spirituality,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 94 KB

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In anthologies of British Romantic literature published in the last couple of decades, the first author one is likely to encounter is Anna Letitia Barbauld. She is frequently represented in these anthologies by selections from her poetry, but Barbauld's influence during her lifetime (1743-1825) and beyond was not limited to her poetry; nor were her aims solely literary. Barbauld was a devoutly Christian Romantic, one who embraced the concept of Nature as sacred text and Christianity as sacred practice, characterized by authentic emotional investment, attention to natural/textual detail, and a staunch belief in the inherent value of the individual She was also a devoutly Christian teacher. She and her husband, Rochemont Barbauld (a Dissenting minister, like her father, John Aikin), managed a school for boys in Suffolk for several years. Anna Barbanld's religious convictions taught her to reverence the individual human mind, to see it as her duty to instruct it, and to understand such instruction as an act of worship. Seeking to instruct children between the ages of three and five, Barbanld created in Hymns in Prose for Children a design argument dependent upon a dose attention to natural detail and a reverential attitude toward both perceiver and perceived. Emphasizing structure and order as well as imagination, the sanctity of the "infant mind" (Barbauld, Hymns 238), and a natural world invested with divinity, Barbauld set out to write a functionally significant text, a text that "means" what it does. It clearly did something, from the date of its first publication well into the nineteenth century and the twentieth. In "Mother of All Discourses;' William McCarthy states that Hymns in Prose was reprinted more than fifty times between 1801 and 1905, not counting translations, and that the number of copies reprinted was always 1,000, 2,000, or 2,500 (196, n. 1). Samuel Pickering points out that as one of the earliest adopted texts in the Sunday School movement, it introduced hundreds of thousands of English children to the activities of reading and practical devotion (263).

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