To Cupid
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Poet Joanna Baillie 1762–1851
POET’S REGION Scotland
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Subjects Love, Desire, First Love, Infatuation & Crushes, Unrequited Love
Biography
The daughter of a Church of Scotland minister, Romantic poet and playwright Joanna Baillie grew up in rural Scotland and spent much of her adult life in Hampstead, just outside London.
Baillie’s lyric poems often take the form of meditations on nature and youth. She was the author of Poems: Wherein It Is Attempted to Describe Certain Views of Nature and of Rustic Manners (1790), Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters (1821), . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Love, Desire, First Love, Infatuation & Crushes, Unrequited Love
POET’S REGION Scotland
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
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