Charlotte Smith : major poetic works / edited by Claire Knowles and Ingrid Horrocks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806, author.

Contributor:

Horrocks, Ingrid, editor.

Knowles, Claire, editor.

Series:

Broadview editions

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806--Criticism and interpretation.

Smith, Charlotte.

Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Major poetic works

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Immensely popular with contemporary readers, Smith's major poetic works are foundational poetic texts of the Romantic period. Smith's innovations in poetic form have also placed her at the forefront of twenty-first century scholarship on the period. This edition presents her three major poetic works - Elegiac Sonnets (1784-1800), The Emigrants (1793), and Beachy Head (1807). They also remain major texts for thinking through such questions as the relationship between public and private; the ethical treatment of refugees and other persecuted people; the position of women in a patriarchal society; and the usefulness of science as a way of making sense of a complex and ever-changing world. This Broadview edition includes a new critical introduction which takes into account the developments in scholarship on Smith's work and women's writing over the past three decades, and it provides readers with a wealth of contextual material for understanding the writer and the social and literary environment within which she wrote, including key works by her precursors and contemporaries, selections from her letters, and reviews of her poetry."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Dedication to William Hayley, Esq. (1784)

Preface to the First and Second Editions (1784)

Preface to the Third and Fourth Editions (1786)

Preface to the Fifth Edition (1789)

Preface to the Sixth Edition (1792)

Volume One

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 X To Mrs. G.

Sonnet XI To Sleep

Sonnet XII Written on the sea shore.-October, 1784

Sonnet XIII From Petrarch

Sonnet XIV From Petrarch

Sonnet XV From Petrarch

Sonnet XVI From Petrarch

Sonnet XVII From the Thirteenth Cantata of Metastasio

Sonnet XVIII To the Earl of Egremont

Sonnet XIX To Mr. Hayley, On receiving some elegant lines from him

Sonnet XX To the Countess of A-. Written on the anniversary of her marriage

Sonnet XXI Supposed to be written by Werter

Sonnet XXII By the same. To Solitude

Sonnet XXIII By the same. To the North Star

Sonnet XXIV By the same

Sonnet XXV By the same. Just before his death

Sonnet XXVI To the River Arun

Sonnet XXVIII To Friendship

Sonnet XXIX To Miss C-On being desired to attempt writing a comedy

Sonnet XXX To the River Arun

Sonnet XXXI Written on Farm Wood, South Downs, in May 1784

Sonnet XXXII To Melancholy. Written on the banks of the Arun, October, 1785

Sonnet XXXIII To the Naiad of the Arun

Sonnet XXXIV To a Friend

Sonnet XXV To Fortitude

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 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. Supposed to have been written in a church-yard, over the grave of a young woman of nineteen

Sonnet L From the novel of Celestina

Sonnet LI From the novel of Celestina. Supposed to have been written in the Hebrides

Sonnet LII Pilgrim

Sonnet LIV sleeping woodman. Written in April 1790

Sonnet LV return of the Nightingale. Written in May 1791

Sonnet LVI captive escaped in the wilds of America. Addressed to the Hon. Mrs. O'Neill

Sonnet LVII To Dependence

Sonnet LVIII glow-worm

Sonnet LIX Written Sept. 1791, during a remarkable thunderstorm, in which the moon was perfectly clear, while the tempest gathered in various directions near the Earth

Volume Two

Preface to Volume Two of Elegiac Sonnets (1797)

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 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, midsummer, 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 winter night

Sonnet LXXVI To a young man entering the world

Sonnet LXXVII To the insect of the gossamer

Sonnet LXXVIII Snowdrops

Sonnet LXXIX To the Goddess of Botany

Sonnet LXXX To the Invisible Moon

Sonnet LXXXII To the Shade of Burns

Sonnet LXXXIII sea view

Sonnet LXXXIV To the Muse

Sonnet LXXXVI Written near a Port on a dark Evening

Sonnet LXXXVII Written in October

Sonnet LXXXVIII Nepenthe

Sonnet LXXXIX To the Sun

Sonnet XC To Oblivion

Sonnet XCI Reflections on some Drawings of Plants

Sonnet XCII Written at Bignor Park in Sussex, in August, 1799

From Elegiac Sonnets Volume One

"Elegy"

"Thirty-eight. Addressed to Mrs H-Y"

From Elegiac Sonnets Volume Two

"The Dead Beggar. An Elegy"

"The Female Exile. Written at Brighthelmstone in Nov. 1792"

From Beachy Head (1807)

"Flora"

"Saint Monica"

From The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical Memoirs (1829)

"To My Lyre"

1. Thomas Gray, "Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West" (1742

^ 2. From William Cowper, The Task (1785)

3. William Bowles, "Sonnet IX. To the River Itchin, near Winton" (1789)

4. Jane West, "On the Sonnets of Mrs. Charlotte Smith" (1791)

5. From [Frances Burney,] Brief Reflections Relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793)

6. Mary Robinson, "Sonnet XLIII," Sappho and Phaon (1796)

7. From William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1798-99)

8. Anne Bannerman, "Sonnet VII" (1800)

9. From Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society (1803)

10. John Keats, "Sonnet VII: When I have fears that I may cease to be" (1848)

1. John Thelwall, "An Essay on the English Sonnet," Universal Magazine (December 1792)

2. From Mary Robinson, "Preface" to Sappho and Phaon (1796)

3. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Introduction to the Sonnets," Poems (1797)

1. From Charlotte Smith, Collected Letters

a.Charlotte Smith to William Davies (25 April 1797)

b.Charlotte Smith to Joel Barlow (3 November 1792

^ c.Charlotte Smith to Joseph Johnson (12 July 1806)

1. From Review of Elegiac Sonnets, Monthly Review (November 1784)

2. From Review of Elegiac Sonnets, Gentleman's Magazine (April 1786)

3. From Review of The Emigrants, European Magazine (July 1793)

4. From Review of The Emigrants, Monthly Review, or Literary Journal (December 1793)

5. From Review of Beachy Head, British Critic (August 1807)

1. Anonymous, "Sonnet to Mrs. Smith," European Magazine (August 1786)

2. D., "SONNET to Mrs. Smith, on reading her Sonnets lately published," European Magazine (May 1786)

3. Pastor Fido, "On passing The Retreat Of Charlotte Smith, near Chichester, in Sussex," World (7 August 1788)

4. "Ticklepitcher," "Ode to Charlotte Smith," Morning Post (16 December 1789)

5. "Oberon" [Mary Robinson], "Sonnet to Mrs. Charlotte Smith, on Hearing That Her Son Was Wounded at the Siege of Dunkirk," Oracle (17 September 1793).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781554812844

1554812844

OCLC:

970406106