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Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems

Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems

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Number of Chapters: 107

Length: 3 hours and 04 minutes

Language: English

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.

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Sonnet I (David Barnes)
Sonnet II. Written at the close of Spring (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet III. To a Nightingale (David Barnes)
Sonnet IV. To the Moon (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet V. To the South Downs (David Barnes)
Sonnet VI. To Hope (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale (David Barnes)
Sonnet VIII. To Spring (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet IX. (David Barnes)
Sonnet X. To Mrs. G. (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XI. To Sleep (David Barnes)
Sonnet XII. Written on the Sea Shore (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XIII. From Petrarch (David Barnes)
Sonnet XIV. From Petrarch (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XV. From Petrarch (David Barnes)
Sonnet XVI. From Petrarch (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XVII. From the 13th Cantata of Metastasio (David Barnes)
Sonnet XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XIX. To Mr. Hayley (David Barnes)
Sonnet XX. To the Countess of A---- (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XXI. Supposed to be written by Werter (David Barnes)
Sonnet XXII. By the same (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XXIII. By the same (David Barnes)
Sonnet XXIV. By the same (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XXV. By the same (David Barnes)
Sonnet XXVI. To the River Arun (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XXVII. (David Barnes)
Sonnet XXVIII. To Friendship (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XXIX. To Miss C---- (David Barnes)
Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XXXI. Written on Farm Wood, on the South Downs, May 1784 (David Barnes)
Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XXXIII. To the Naiad of the Arun (David Barnes)
Sonnet XXXIV. To a Friend (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XXXV. To Fortitude (David Barnes)
Sonnet XXXVI. (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XXXVII. Sent to the Honourable Mrs O'Neill with painted flowers (David Barnes)
Sonnet XXXVIII. From the Novel of Emmeline (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XXXIX. To Night. From the same (David Barnes)
Sonnet XL. From the same (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XLI. To Tranquility (David Barnes)
Sonnet XLII. Composed during a walk on the Downs, in November 1787 (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XLIII. (David Barnes)
Sonnet XLIV. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XLV. On leaving a part of Sussex (David Barnes)
Sonnet XLVI. Written at Penshurst, in Autumn 1788 (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XLVII. To Fancy (David Barnes)
Sonnet XLVIII. To Mrs. **** (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet XLIX. From the Novel of Celestina (David Barnes)
Sonnet L. From the same (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LI. From the same (David Barnes)
Sonnet LII. From the same (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LIII. From the same (David Barnes)
Sonnet LIV. The Sleeping Woodman (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LV. The Return of the Nightingale (David Barnes)
Sonnet LVI. The Captive escaped in the Wilds of America (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LVII. To Dependence (David Barnes)
Sonnet LVIII. The Glow-worm (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LIX. Written Sept. 1791, during a remarkable Thunder Storm (David Barnes)
Ode to Despair. From the Novel of Emmeline (Cori Samuel)
Elegy (David Barnes)
Song. From the French of Cardinal Bernis (Cori Samuel)
The Origin of Flattery (David Barnes)
The Peasant of the Alps (Cori Samuel)
Song (David Barnes)
Thirty-eight (Cori Samuel)
Verses intended to have been prefixed to the Novel of Emmeline (David Barnes)
Sonnet LX. To an amiable Girl (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LXI. Supposed to have been written in America (David Barnes)
Sonnet LXII. Written on passing by Moon-light through a village, while the ground was covered with Snow (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LXIII. The Gossamer (David Barnes)
Sonnet LXIV. Written at Bristol in the Summer of 1794 (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LXV. To Dr Parry of Bath, with some Botanic Drawings which had been made some years (David Barnes)
Sonnet LXVI. Written in a tempestuous night, on the coast of Sussex (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LXVII. On passing over a dreary tract of country, and near the ruins of a deserted chapel, during a tempest (David Barnes)
Sonnet LXVIII. Written at Exmouth, Mid-summer 1795 (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LXIX. Written at the same place, on seeing a Seaman return who had been imprisoned at Rochfort (David Barnes)
Sonnet LXX. On being cautioned against walking on a Headland overlooking the Sea, because it was frequented by a Lunatic (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LXXI. Written at Weymouth in Winter (David Barnes)
Sonnet LXXII. To the Morning Star. Written near the Sea (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LXXIII. To a Querulous Acquaintance (David Barnes)
Sonnet LXXIV. The Winter Night (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LXXV. (David Barnes)
Sonnet LXXVI. To a Young Man entering the world (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LXXVII. To the Insect of the Gossamer (David Barnes)
Sonnet LXXVIII. Snow-drops (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LXXIX. To the Goddess of Botany (David Barnes)
Sonnet LXXX. To the Invisible Moon (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LXXXI. (David Barnes)
Sonnet LXXXII. To the Shade of Burns (Cori Samuel)
Sonnet LXXXIII. The Sea view (David Barnes)
Sonnet LXXXIV. To the Muse (Cori Samuel)
The Dead Beggar (David Barnes)
The Female Exile (Cori Samuel)
Occasional Address. Written for the Benefit of a distressed Player, detained at Brighthelmstone for debt, November 1792 (David Barnes)
Inscription on a Stone in the Church-Yard at Boreham, in Essex (Cori Samuel)
A descriptive Ode (David Barnes)
Verses supposed to have been written in the New Forest, in early Spring (Cori Samuel)
Song. From the French (David Barnes)
Apostrophe to an Old Tree (Cori Samuel)
The Forest Boy (David Barnes)
Ode to the Poppy. Written by a deceased Friend (Cori Samuel)
Verses written by the same Lady on seeing her two Sons at play (David Barnes)
Verses on the Death of the same Lady, written in September 1794 (Cori Samuel)
Fragment, descriptive of the Miseries of War (David Barnes)
April (Cori Samuel)
Ode to Death (David Barnes)
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