The Poems of Charlotte Smith
The Poems of Charlotte Smith Books
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Charlotte 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 lent its poetic date with nature a uniquely telling nearness. Smith was a woman, Wordsworth remarked a quarter century after her death, “to whom English verse is below greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered.” Right to his prediction, Smith’s poetry has effectively 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.
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