Romantic
Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) was an English poet and novelist, born Charlotte Turner and raised in Sussex and Surrey. Married young to a spendthrift husband who was imprisoned for debt in 1783, she turned to writing to support her many children.
Her Elegiac Sonnets (1784), expanded through many editions, is often credited with reviving the English sonnet as a form for personal feeling, and its melancholy landscapes of the Sussex downs and coast lie behind much Romantic poetry. She was also a successful novelist, and her long blank-verse poem Beachy Head appeared after her death in 1807.
Poems (35)
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet II: Written at the Close of Spring
- Sonnet III: To a Nightingale
- Sonnet IV: To the Moon
- Sonnet V: To the South Downs
- Sonnet VI: To Hope
- Sonnet VII: On the Departure of the Nightingale
- Sonnet VIII: To Spring
- Sonnet XI: To Sleep
- Sonnet XII: Written on the Sea Shore, October 1784
- Sonnet XXXII: To Melancholy
- Sonnet XXXIX: To Night
- Sonnet XLI: To Tranquillity
- Sonnet XLIV: Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex
- Sonnet XLV: On Leaving a Part of Sussex
- Sonnet XLVI: Written at Penshurst, in Autumn 1788
- Sonnet XLVII: To Fancy
- Sonnet LIV: The Sleeping Woodman
- Sonnet LV: The Return of the Nightingale
- Sonnet LVIII: The Glow-Worm
- Sonnet LXVI: Written in a Tempestuous Night, on the Coast of Sussex
- Sonnet LXXI: Written at Weymouth in Winter
- Sonnet LXXII: To the Morning Star
- Sonnet LXXVII: To the Insect of the Gossamer
- Sonnet LXXVIII: To the Snowdrops
- Sonnet LXXX: To the Invisible Moon
- Sonnet LXXXII: To the Shade of Burns
- Sonnet LXXXIII: The Sea View
- Sonnet LXXXVIII: Nepenthe
- Sonnet XC: To Oblivion
- Sonnet XCII: Written at Bignor Park in Sussex, in August 1799
- Beachy Head
- The Female Exile
- Apostrophe to an Old Tree
- The Swallow