Pests, parasites, and positionality: Anna Letitia Barbauld and "The Caterpillar".(Critical Essay)

From: Studies in Romanticism | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

READERS WHO WERE FIRST INTRODUCED TO ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825) as the prudish school matron who wrote prose hymns for children and complained that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" lacks a "moral" (1) may be surprised to find this same woman supporting the thieves who prey immorally upon the rich: 

   When a rich West India fleet has sailed into the docks, and wealth 
   is flowing in full tides into the crammed coffers of the merchant, 
   can we greatly lament that a small portion of his immense property 
   is by these means [fraud and thievery] diverted from ...

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