The Poems of Charlotte Smith

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Oxford University Press, 1993 - 335 עמודים
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 engagement with nature a uniquely telling immediacy. Smith was a woman, Wordsworth remarked a quarter century after her death, "to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered." True to his prediction, Smith's poetry has virtually 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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To William Hayley Esq 23
2
Preface to the first and second editions Preface to the third and fourth editions
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Preface to the fifth edition
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Preface to the second edition of Volume II
13
To a nightingale
14
To the moon
15
To hope
16
On the departure of the nightingale
17
Written in a tempestuous night on the coast of Sussex
58
On passing over a dreary tract of country
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Written at the same place on seeing a seaman return
60
On being cautioned against walking on an headland
61
To the morning star Written near the sea
62
To a querulous acquaintance
63
To a young man entering the world
65
To the insect of the gossamer
66

To Mrs G
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To sleep
19
Written on the sea shore October 1784
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From Petrarch
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From Petrarch
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From Petrarch
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To the Earl of Egremont
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To Mr Hayley
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Supposed to be written by Werter
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By the same To solitude
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By the same To the North Star
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By the same Just before his death
29
To the River Arun
30
To friendship
31
To Miss C
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To the River Arun
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Written in Farm Wood South Downs in May 1784
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To the naiad of the Arun
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To a friend
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Sent to the Honorable Mrs ONeill
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To night
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To tranquillity
40
Written in the churchyard at Middleton in Sussex
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Written at Penshurst in autumn 1788
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To fancy
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To Mrs
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Supposed to have been written in the Hebrides
47
The Laplander
48
The sleeping woodman Written in April 1790
49
The captive escaped in the wilds of America
50
To dependence
51
Written September 1791
52
To an amiable girl
53
Supposed to have been written in America
54
Written on passing by moonlight through a village
55
Written at Bristol in the summer of 1794
56
To Dr Parry of Bath with some botanic drawings
57
Snowdrops
67
To the goddess of botany
68
To the invisible moon
69
To the shade of Burns
71
The sea view
72
Written near a port on a dark evening
74
Nepenthe
75
To the sun
76
To oblivion
77
Written at Bignor Park in Sussex in August 1799
78
Elegy
80
The peasant of the Alps
90
The dead beggar
96
Inscription on a stone in the churchyard at Boreham
103
Apostrophe to an old tree
109
Verses on the death of Henrietta ONeill
117
To the winds
123
The Emigrants
131
Book the Second
149
Uncollected Poems
165
Prologue to What is She?
168
Prologue to Godwins Antonio
174
A walk by the water
180
To the snowdrop
187
The wheatear
194
Ode to the missel thrush
200
Lines composed in passing through a forest in Germany
207
Advertisement
215
Notes to the Fables
251
The jay in masquerade
257
The truant dove from Pilpay
260
The swallow
273
Studies by the sea
289
A walk in the shrubbery
303
Index of First Lines
325
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