THE DRAMATIC AND POETICAL WORKS - OF JOANNA BAILLIE LI ITY NIA. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 1851. ALL the Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie are now collected together, and presented to the Public, with many corrections, and a few additions, by herself. They are in this Volume arranged in three divisions. The first contains the Plays on the Passions, from which the reputation of the Author primarily and chiefly arose; in which is embodied the design she formed, at the commencement of her career, of writing a Tragedy and Comedy on each of the stronger passions of the mind. The second division embraces, under the head "Miscellaneous Plays," all her dramatic works not comprehended in that design. The third includes all her poetical compositions, not dramatic, nor connected with the Plays. In this division appears a poem entitled Ahalya Baee, recently printed for private circulation; and amongst the Fugitive Verses have been introduced some short poems never before published. |