Charlotte Smith: The Major Poetic Works (1784-1807)

ISBN-13: 9781554812844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 280 str.

Charlotte Smith; Claire Knowles; Ingrid Horrocks

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Immensely popular with contemporary readers, Smith's major poetic works are foundational 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). While the significance of these three volumes of poetry was recognized in their own time, this edition suggests that they 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 that 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.

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• Appendix A: Key precursors and contemporaries
• Thomas Gray, “Sonnet on the Death of Mr Benjamin West” (1775)
• From William Cowper, The Task (1785)
• William Bowles, “Sonnet VIII. To the River Itchin, near Winton,” from Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive (1789)
• Jane West, “On the Sonnets of Mrs. Charlotte Smith,” from Miscellaneous Poems, and a Tragedy (1791)
• From Frances Burney, Brief Reflections Relative to the Emigrant French Clergy (1793)
• Mary Robinson, “Sonnet XLIII,” Sappho and Phaon (1796)
• From William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book One (1798-99)
• Anne Bannerman, “Sonnet VII,” from Poems of Anne Bannerman (1800)
• From Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical notes (1803)
• John Keats, “Sonnet VII: When I have fears that I may cease to be,” from Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats (1848)
• Appendix B: Contemporaries on Smith and the sonnet
• John Thelwell, “An Essay on the ENGLISH SONNET; illustrated by a comparison between the Sonnets of MILTON and those of CHARLOTTE SMITH,” European Magazine (1792)
• Mary Robinson, from “Preface” to Sappho and Phaon (1796)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from “Introduction to the Sonnets,” Poems (1797)
• Appendix C: Selections from Smith’s letters related to her poetry
• To William Davies, 25 April 1797
• To Joel Barlow, 3 November 1792
• To Joseph Johnson, 12 July 1806
• Appendix D: Selected reviews of Smith’s major poems
• Review of Elegiac Sonnets (1784) in the Monthly Review
• Review of Elegiac Sonnets (1786) in the Gentleman’s Magazine
• Review of The Emigrants (1793) in the European Magazine
• Review of The Emigrants (1793) in the Monthly Review
• Review of Beachy Head (1807) in British Critic
• Appendix E: Poetry about Smith appearing in newspapers and magazines
• Anonymous, “Sonnet to Mrs. Smith”
• D, “Sonnet to Mrs. SMITH, on reading her Sonnets lately published”
• “Pastor Fido,” “On passing the retreat of Charlotte Smith near Chichester, in Sussex”
• “Ticklepitcher,” “Ode to Charlotte Smith”
• “Oberon” (Mary Robinson), “Sonnet to Mrs Charlotte Smith on Hearing That Her Son Was Wounded at the Siege of Dunkirk.”
• Appendix F: Tables of Contents for the volumes of Elegiac Sonnets published during Smith’s lifetime