Joanna Baillie

Joanna Baillie ( born September 11, 1762, Bothwell, near Glasgow, † February 23, 1851 in Hampstead ) was a British poet of the Romantic period.

Life

She was known during his lifetime, especially because of their dramas, which were particularly successful as closet dramas, since they are not well suited to the performance due to their Dialoglastigkeit. Baillie also wrote poems, which today is as great attention is given to how their dramas.

Their first independent release was the book of poems Poems: Wherein it is Attempted to Describe Certain Views of Nature and of Rustic Manners (1790). Although the anonymous published volume of poetry was rated by critics positively, he did not sell well, so Baillie took up most of the poems again in her late poetry book Fugitive Verses (1840 ).

The band A Series of Plays, in Which It Is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind (London 1798) was more of a psychological order and moralizing dialogue as a real dramas; but found the pieces such applause that the work was continued in 1802 and 1812 by a 2nd and 3rd band. Included in the first volume is a programmatic introduction, the "Introductory Discourse " in which Baillie performs its sealing concept.

In addition, published: "Miscellaneous Plays" (London, 1804), and later " drama " (1836, 3 vols ).

The tragedy of "The Family Legend" (1810 ) plays in the Scottish Highlands and was praised by Sir Walter Scott, with which the poet had been friends since 1806.

The Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters (1821 ) included three long narrative poems that tell the stories of William Wallace, Christopher Columbus and Lady Griseld Baillie, as well as four shorter poems.

Most of her later life spent Baillie in seclusion in Hampstead in London and became involved in the care of the poor, which earned her the name "Lady Bountiful ."

She died shortly after the release of their Werkausgabe The Dramatic Works and Poetical (London 1851).

Writings

• The Dramatic and Poetical Works ( 1851). Reprint [ facsimile edition ]: Hildesheim / New York: Georg Olms 1976.
• The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie 1762-1851. Edited by Jennifer Breen. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.