The Poems of Charlotte Smith (Women Writers in English 1350-1850) [Hardcover]

Charlotte Smith (Author), Stuart Curran (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 019507873X | ISBN-13: 978-0195078732 | Publication Date: December 9, 1993

Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) was the author of ten novels, a play, and a host of innovative educational books for children, as well as several volumes of poetry that helped set priorities and determine the tastes of the culture of early Romanticism. Her Elegiac Sonnets sparked the sonnet revival in English Romanticism; The Emigrants initiated its passion for lengthy meditative introspection; and Beachy Head leant its poetic engagement with nature a uniquely telling immediacy. Smith was a woman, Wordsworth remarked a quarter century after her death "to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered." True to his prediction, Smith's poetry has virtually dropped from sight and thus from cultural consciousness. This, the first edition of Smith's collected poems, will restore to all students of English poetry a distinctive, compelling voice. Likewise, the recovery of Smith to her rightful place among the Romantic poets must spur the reassessment of the place of women writers within that culture.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Song
Elegiac Sonnet: 17. Cantata: 13, Sels.
Elegiac Sonnet: 13
Elegiac Sonnet: 14
Elegiac Sonnet: 15
Elegiac Sonnet: 16
Apostrophe To An Old Tree
April
Beachy Head
The Close Of Summer
The Dead Beggar
A Decsriptive Ode, ... Under The Ruins Of Rufus's Castle
The Dictatorial Owl
The Early Butterfly
Elegiac Sonnet: 1
Elegiac Sonnet: 10. To Mrs. G.
Elegiac Sonnet: 11. To Sleep
Elegiac Sonnet: 12. Written On The Sea Shore
Elegiac Sonnet: 18. To The Earl Of Egremont
Elegiac Sonnet: 19. To Mr. Hayley, ... Elegant Lines
Elegiac Sonnet: 2. Written At The Close Of Spring
Elegiac Sonnet: 20. To The Countess Of A -, ... Marriage
Elegiac Sonnet: 21. Supposed To Be Written By Werter
Elegiac Sonnet: 22. By The Same. To Solitude
Elegiac Sonnet: 23. By The Same. To The North Star
Elegiac Sonnet: 24. By The Same
Elegiac Sonnet: 25. By The Same. Just Before His Death
Elegiac Sonnet: 26. To The River Arun
Elegiac Sonnet: 27
Elegiac Sonnet: 28. To Friendship
Elegiac Sonnet: 29. To Miss C - ... Writing A Comedy
Elegiac Sonnet: 3. To The Nightingale
Elegiac Sonnet: 30. To The River Arun
Elegiac Sonnet: 31. Written In Farm Wood, South Downs
Elegiac Sonnet: 32. To Melancholy. Written On Banks Of Arun
Elegiac Sonnet: 33. To The Naiad Of The Arun
Elegiac Sonnet: 34. To A Friend
Elegiac Sonnet: 35. To Fortitude
Elegiac Sonnet: 36
Elegiac Sonnet: 37. Sent To The Hon. Mrs. O'neill
Elegiac Sonnet: 38
Elegiac Sonnet: 39. To Night
Elegiac Sonnet: 4. To The Moon
Elegiac Sonnet: 40
Elegiac Sonnet: 41. To Tranquility
Elegiac Sonnet: 42. Composed During A Walk On The Downs
Elegiac Sonnet: 43
Elegiac Sonnet: 44. Written In The Church Yard At Middleton In Sussex
Elegiac Sonnet: 45. On Leaving A Part Of Sussex
Elegiac Sonnet: 46. Written At Penshurst, In Autumn 1788
Elegiac Sonnet: 47. To Fancy
Elegiac Sonnet: 48. To Mrs. ****
Elegiac Sonnet: 49. ... Written In A Church-yard
Elegiac Sonnet: 5. To The South Downs
Elegiac Sonnet: 50
Elegiac Sonnet: 51. Supposed ... Written In The Hebrides
Elegiac Sonnet: 52. The Pilgrim
Elegiac Sonnet: 53. The Laplander
Elegiac Sonnet: 54. The Sleeping Woodman
Elegiac Sonnet: 55. The Return Of The Nightingale
Elegiac Sonnet: 56. Captive Escaped In Wilds Of America
Elegiac Sonnet: 57. To Dependence
Elegiac Sonnet: 58. The Glow-worm
Elegiac Sonnet: 59. Written During Remarkable Thunder Storm
Elegiac Sonnet: 6. To Hope
Elegiac Sonnet: 60. To An Amiable Girl
Elegiac Sonnet: 61. Supposed To Have Been Written In America
Elegiac Sonnet: 62. Written On Passing By Moon-light ...
Elegiac Sonnet: 63. The Gossamer
Elegiac Sonnet: 64. Written At Bristol In The Summer Of 1794
Elegiac Sonnet: 65. To Dr. Parry Of Bath
Elegiac Sonnet: 66. Written In A Tempestuous Night
Elegiac Sonnet: 67. On Passing Over Dreary Tract Of Country
Elegiac Sonnet: 68. Written At Exmouth, Midsummer, 1795
Elegiac Sonnet: 69. Written At Exmouth, On Seeing A Seaman
Elegiac Sonnet: 7. On The Departure Of The Nightingale
Elegiac Sonnet: 70. On Being Cautioned Against Walking On A Headland
Elegiac Sonnet: 71. Written At Weymouth In Winter
Elegiac Sonnet: 72. To The Morning Star. Written Near Sea
Elegiac Sonnet: 73. To A Querulous Acquaintance
Elegiac Sonnet: 74. The Winter Night
Elegiac Sonnet: 75
Elegiac Sonnet: 76. To A Young Man Entering The World
Elegiac Sonnet: 77. To The Insect Of The Gossamer
Elegiac Sonnet: 78. Snowdrops
Elegiac Sonnet: 79. To The Goddess Of Botany
Elegiac Sonnet: 8. To Spring
Elegiac Sonnet: 80. To The Invisible Moon
Elegiac Sonnet: 81
Elegiac Sonnet: 82. To The Shade Of Burns
Elegiac Sonnet: 83. The Sea View
Elegiac Sonnet: 84. To The Muse
Elegiac Sonnet: 85
Elegiac Sonnet: 86. Written Near A Port On A Dark Evening
Elegiac Sonnet: 87. Written In October
Elegiac Sonnet: 88. Nepenthe
Elegiac Sonnet: 89. To The Sun
Elegiac Sonnet: 9
Elegiac Sonnet: 90. To Oblivion
Elegiac Sonnet: 91. Reflections On Some Drawings Of Plants
Elegiac Sonnet: 92. Written At Bignor Park, Sussex
Elegy
The Emigrants
Evening
An Evening Walk By The Sea-side
The Female Exile. Written At Brightelmstone In November 1792
The First Swallow
Flora
The Forest Boy
The Heath
The Hedge-hog Seen In A Frequented Path
Hope; A Rondeau
The Horologe Of The Fields
Hymn To Love And Life
Inscription On A Stone, In The Church-yard At Boreham
Invitation To The Bee
The Jay In Masquerade
The Lark's Nest; A Fable From Esop
Lines Composed In Passing Through A Forest In Germany
Love And Folly; From The Fables Of La Fontaine
Lydia
The Moth
Ode To Death
Ode To Despair
Ode To The Missel Thrush
Ode To The Olive Tree
On The Aphorism: L'amitie Est L'amour Sans Ailes
The Origin Of Flattery
The Peasant Of The Alps
Prologue To William Godwin's Antonio: Or, Soldier's Return
Saint Monica
Song
Sonnet To The Forest Ytene
Stanzas
Studies By The Sea
Thirty Eight. Addressed To Mrs. H -- Y.
To A Butterfly In A Window
To A Geranium Which Flowered During The Winter Written In Autumn
To A Green-chafer, On A White Rose
To My Lyre
To The Fire-fly Of Jamaica, Seen In A Collection
To The Mulberry-tree
To The Snow-drop
To The Winds
To Vesper
The Truant Dove From Pilpay
Verses Intended To Have Been Prefixed To The Novel Emmeline
Verses Supposed To Have Been Written In The New Forest
Verses, On The Death Of Henrietta O'neill
Violets
A Walk By The River
A Walk In The Shrubbery
What Is She? A Comedy: Epilogue (a)
What Is She? A Comedy: Epilogue (b)
What Is She? A Comedy: Epilogue (c)
What Is She? A Comedy: Prologue
The Wheat-ear
Wild Flowers
Written For The Benefit Of A Distressed Player
Song
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Stuart Curran is at University of Pennsylvania. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 9, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 019507873X
• ISBN-13: 978-0195078732
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
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