Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems
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100
1827
English
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet II. Written at the close of Spring
- Sonnet III. To a Nightingale
- Sonnet IV. To the Moon
- Sonnet V. To the South Downs
- Sonnet VI. To Hope
- Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale
- Sonnet VIII. To Spring
- Sonnet IX.
- Sonnet X. To Mrs. G.
- Sonnet XI. To Sleep
- Sonnet XII. Written on the Sea Shore
- Sonnet XIII. From Petrarch
- Sonnet XIV. From Petrarch
- Sonnet XV. From Petrarch
- Sonnet XVI. From Petrarch
- Sonnet XVII. From the 13th Cantata of Metastasio
- Sonnet XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont
- Sonnet XIX. To Mr. Hayley
- Sonnet XX. To the Countess of A----
- Sonnet XXI. Supposed to be written by Werter
- Sonnet XXII. By the same
- Sonnet XXIII. By the same
- Sonnet XXIV. By the same
- Sonnet XXV. By the same
- Sonnet XXVI. To the River Arun
- Sonnet XXVII.
- Sonnet XXVIII. To Friendship
- Sonnet XXIX. To Miss C----
- Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun
- Sonnet XXXI. Written on Farm Wood, on the South Downs, May 1784
- Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun
- Sonnet XXXIII. To the Naiad of the Arun
- Sonnet XXXIV. To a Friend
- Sonnet XXXV. To Fortitude
- Sonnet XXXVI.
- Sonnet XXXVII. Sent to the Honourable Mrs O'Neill with painted flowers
- Sonnet XXXVIII. From the Novel of Emmeline
- Sonnet XXXIX. To Night. From the same
- Sonnet XL. From the same
- Sonnet XLI. To Tranquility
- Sonnet XLII. Composed during a walk on the Downs, in November 1787
- Sonnet XLIII.
- Sonnet XLIV. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
- Sonnet XLV. On leaving a part of Sussex
- Sonnet XLVI. Written at Penshurst, in Autumn 1788
- Sonnet XLVII. To Fancy
- Sonnet XLVIII. To Mrs. ****
- Sonnet XLIX. From the Novel of Celestina
- Sonnet L. From the same
- Sonnet LI. From the same
- Sonnet LII. From the same
- Sonnet LIII. From the same
- Sonnet LIV. The Sleeping Woodman
- Sonnet LV. The Return of the Nightingale
- Sonnet LVI. The Captive escaped in the Wilds of America
- Sonnet LVII. To Dependence
- Sonnet LVIII. The Glow-worm
- Sonnet LIX. Written Sept. 1791, during a remarkable Thunder Storm
- Ode to Despair. From the Novel of Emmeline
- Elegy
- Song. From the French of Cardinal Bernis
- The Origin of Flattery
- The Peasant of the Alps
- Song
- Thirty-eight
- Verses intended to have been prefixed to the Novel of Emmeline
- Sonnet LX. To an amiable Girl
- Sonnet LXI. Supposed to have been written in America
- Sonnet LXII. Written on passing by Moon-light through a village, while the ground was covered with Snow
- Sonnet LXIII. The Gossamer
- Sonnet LXIV. Written at Bristol in the Summer of 1794
- Sonnet LXV. To Dr Parry of Bath, with some Botanic Drawings which had been made some years
- Sonnet LXVI. Written in a tempestuous night, on the coast of Sussex
- Sonnet LXVII. On passing over a dreary tract of country, and near the ruins of a deserted chapel, during a tempest
- Sonnet LXVIII. Written at Exmouth, Mid-summer 1795
- Sonnet LXIX. Written at the same place, on seeing a Seaman return who had been imprisoned at Rochfort
- Sonnet LXX. On being cautioned against walking on a Headland overlooking the Sea, because it was frequented by a Lunatic
- Sonnet LXXI. Written at Weymouth in Winter
- Sonnet LXXII. To the Morning Star. Written near the Sea
- Sonnet LXXIII. To a Querulous Acquaintance
- Sonnet LXXIV. The Winter Night
- Sonnet LXXV.
- Sonnet LXXVI. To a Young Man entering the world
- Sonnet LXXVII. To the Insect of the Gossamer
- Sonnet LXXVIII. Snow-drops
- Sonnet LXXIX. To the Goddess of Botany
- Sonnet LXXX. To the Invisible Moon
- Sonnet LXXXI.
- Sonnet LXXXII. To the Shade of Burns
- Sonnet LXXXIII. The Sea view
- Sonnet LXXXIV. To the Muse
- The Dead Beggar
- The Female Exile
- Occasional Address. Written for the Benefit of a distressed Player, detained at Brighthelmstone for debt, November 1792
- Inscription on a Stone in the Church-Yard at Boreham, in Essex
- A descriptive Ode
- Verses supposed to have been written in the New Forest, in early Spring
- Song. From the French
- Apostrophe to an Old Tree
- The Forest Boy
- Ode to the Poppy. Written by a deceased Friend
- Verses written by the same Lady on seeing her two Sons at play
- Verses on the Death of the same Lady, written in September 1794
- Fragment, descriptive of the Miseries of War
- April
- Ode to Death
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 – 1806) was an English poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility.
It was in 1784, in debtor's prison with her husband Benjamin, that she wrote and published her first work, Elegiac Sonnets. The work achieved instant success, allowing Charlotte to pay for their release from prison. Smith's sonnets helped initiate a revival of the form and granted an aura of respectability to her later novels.
Stuart Curran, the editor of Smith's poems, has written that Smith is "the first poet in England whom in retrospect we would call Romantic". She helped shape the "patterns of thought and conventions of style" for the period. Romantic poet William Wordsworth was the most affected by her works. He said of Smith in the 1830s that she was "a lady to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered". By the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Smith was largely forgotten.
It was in 1784, in debtor's prison with her husband Benjamin, that she wrote and published her first work, Elegiac Sonnets. The work achieved instant success, allowing Charlotte to pay for their release from prison. Smith's sonnets helped initiate a revival of the form and granted an aura of respectability to her later novels.
Stuart Curran, the editor of Smith's poems, has written that Smith is "the first poet in England whom in retrospect we would call Romantic". She helped shape the "patterns of thought and conventions of style" for the period. Romantic poet William Wordsworth was the most affected by her works. He said of Smith in the 1830s that she was "a lady to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered". By the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Smith was largely forgotten.
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