After years of literary neglect, Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) is now being recognized as a major poet and modern figure whose Romantic sensibility is an expression of a specifically female experience. This selection provides an ideal introduction to the full range of her work, from her influential sonnets and poems for children to extracts from her French Revolution poem The Emigrants and the full text of her astonishing masterwork Beachy Head.
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Charlotte Smith was a prolific writer of gothic novels and works for children. She is the author of Beachy Head and Elegiac Sonnets. Judith Willson is a former editor of Oxford University's Journal of Semitic Studies. She is currently an editor at Carcanet Press.
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Fantasy's Master Poet,
By Henry J. Vester III (Klamath Falls, OR) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Selected Poems (Hardcover)
If you know the work of Clark Ashton Smith only through his otherworldly -- and often acidically ironic -- short stories, then you've not seen his best, in my opinion. If you're a lover of language... an epicure of the fantastic in verse... then find a copy of Smith's SELECTED POEMS and buy it, whatever the price. This volume, more than any other of Smith's works, exemplifies his unending battle against all that is small and petty and mundane, and opens to the reader's soul vistas of unimaginable wonder. There have been many very fine poets of the outre: Lovecraft, Howard, Tierney, Bierce, Fryer, Brennan... but Clark Ashton Smith towers above them all. If I had to choose two books only from my not inconsiderable library, and see the rest consigned to flames, those two would be the Bible and Smith's SELECTED LETTERS. 'Nuff said.
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