The poems of Charlotte Smith / edited by Stuart Curran.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806, author.

Contributor:

• Curran, Stuart, editor.

Series:

• Women writers in English, 1350-1850.
• Oxford scholarship online.
• Women writers in English, 1350-1850
• Oxford scholarship online

Standardized Title:

• Poems

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Charlotte Smith's life was the stuff of romantic anguish; upon marriage she felt exiled in "personal slavery", and began publishing poems to earn money while in debtor's prison with her extravagant husband. They subsequently resided in France and lived on subscriptions to her poems and translation work, but she eventually left her husband, "fearing my life was not safe", and began publishing novels annually in order to provide for her children. Smith was the first English poet whom, in retrospect, we could call Romantic, and was particularly influential on Wordsworth's style and ideas.

Contents:

• Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems; To William Hayley, Esq; Preface to the first and second editions; Preface to the third and fourth editions; Preface to the fifth edition; Preface to the sixth edition; Preface to the second edition of Volume II; I.; II. Written at the close of spring; III. To a nightingale; IV. To the moon; V. To the South Downs; VI. To hope; VII. On the departure of the nightingale; VIII. To spring; IX.; X. To Mrs. G.; XI. To sleep; XII. Written on the sea shore.-October, 1784; XIII. From Petrarch; XIV. From Petrarch; XV. From Petrarch
• XVI. From PetrarchXVII. From the thirteenth cantata of Metastasio; XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont; XIX. To Mr. Hayley; XX. To the Countess of A-; XXI. Supposed to be written by Werter; XXII. By the same. To solitude; XXIII. By the same. To the North Star; XXIV. By the same; XXV. By the same. Just before his death; XXVI. To the River Arun; XXVII.; XXVIII. To friendship; XXIX. To Miss C-; XXX. To the River Arun; XXXI. Written in Farm Wood, South Downs, in May 1784; XXXII. To melancholy. Written on the banks of the Arun; XXXIII. To the naiad of the Arun; XXXIV. To a friend; XXXV. To fortitude
• XXXVI.XXXVII.Sent to the Honorable Mrs. O'Neill; XXXVIII.; XXXIX. To night; XL.; XLI. To tranquillity; XLII. Composed during a walk on the Downs; XLIII.; XLIV. Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex; XLV. On leaving a part of Sussex; XLVI. Written at Penshurst, in autumn 1788; XLVII. To fancy; XLVIII. To Mrs. ****; XLIX. Supposed to have been written in a church-yard; L.; LI. Supposed to have been written in the Hebrides; LII. The pilgrim; LIII. The Laplander; LIV. The sleeping woodman. Written in April 1790; LV. The return of the nightingale. Written in May 1791
• LVI. The captive escaped in the wilds of AmericaLVII. To dependence; LVIII. The glow-worm; LIX. Written September 1791, during a remarkable thunder storm; LX. To an amiable girl; LXI. Supposed to have been written in America; LXII. Written on passing by moonlight through a village; LXIII. The gossamer; LXIV. Written at Bristol in the summer of 1794; LXV. To Dr. Parry of Bath, with some botanic drawings; LXVI. Written in a tempestuous night, on the coast of Sussex; LXVII. On passing over a dreary tract of country; LXVIII. Written at Exmouth, midsummer, 1795
• LXIX. Written at the same place, on seeing a seaman returnLXX. On being cautioned against walking on an headland; LXXI. Written at Weymouth in winter; LXXII. To the morning star. Written near the sea; LXXIII. To a querulous acquaintance; LXXIV. The winter night; LXXV.; LXXVI. To a young man entering the world; LXXVII. To the insect of the gossamer; LXXVIII. Snowdrops; LXXIX. To the goddess of botany; LXXX. To the invisible moon; LXXXI.; LXXXII. To the shade of Burns; LXXXIII. The sea view; LXXXIV. To the Muse; LXXXV.; LXXXVI. Written near a port on a dark evening; LXXXVII. Written in October
• LXXXVIII. Nepenthe

Notes:

• Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

• 0-19-772564-3
• 0-19-534476-6

OCLC:

1027203823