The Poems of Charlotte Smith (Paperback, New Ed)

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 a 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. Her poetry, beginning with the first edition of Elegaic Sonnets in 1784, was well received by her contemporaries; her final masterpiece, Beachy Head, published posthumously in 1807, powerfully illustrates the impulse to resolve the self in nature. Today, Smith is known primarily as a novelist but this volume will be the first complete collection of her poems, and will revolutionize our ideas about the development of English Romanticism.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Women Writers in English 1350-1850
Release date:	August 1995
First published:	December 1993
Authors:	Charlotte Smith
Editors:	Stuart Curran (Professor of English)
Dimensions:	210 x 138 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	364
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-508358-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-19-508358-X
Barcode:	9780195083583

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