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Elegiac Sonnets and Poems

Charlotte Turner Smith

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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.

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Interesting poems in the voice of Goethe.

"He rests upon the mercies of his god."

In the last few days I read some of the writer's novels and what impressed me is her very poetic writing. This created the need to look for some of her poems for which she was well known then. So I arrived at this very beautiful collection of poems from a time where poetry was something simpler. A w

Judged to be an early Romantic poet, Charlotte Turner Smith's sonnets are surprisingly accessible and vary in subject matter from nature to human emotions. I am not quite sure why she has been so neglected as these poems are interesting and original examples of the sonnet form.

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My favourite poems weren't all the ones on my special fields list, so I'm glad I looked at the whole thing. It seems to have changed a lot over the course of its seven editions -- I'd like to know more about its publication history. The footnotes were interesting too-- both that she felt the need to